This exploratory empirical study compares the determinants of innovation in manufacturing and services through … different innovation objectives or cooperating with different types of partners appears to have detrimental effects on service … innovation. We interpret the latter results through reference to service firms' R&D and alliance management capabilities …

supposed to be drivers for innovation performance. Using representative firm-level data of 4,121 German firms, this paper … analyzes how the adoption of Industry 4.0 impacts innovation performance. The analysis is based on bivariate regression models … innovations and has a positive impact on the intensity of product innovation in the service sector compared to manufacturing firms …

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … the world while its effects on process innovation and any product innovation are relatively much weaker. Moreover, there …. These findings are broadly in line with recent international evidence from Japan, Canada and Italy which found positive …

decision to innovate: simultaneously (one-stage model) or sequentially (two-stage model). Afterwards, once the innovation … that the two-stage model has a statistically significant advantage in predicting innovation. Indeed, it is shown that the … sequential model illustrates well the innovation making-decision procedures. In fact, the main determinant behind the dominance …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

The study empirically examined the effect of service system innovation on firm competitiveness in Nigeria, an emerging … system on service system innovation-firm competitiveness nexus was observed. Data were collected using a survey instrument … partial least square-structural equation model (PLS-SEM). Analyses revealed that service system innovation as represented by …

Both academics and practitioners emphasize the importance for product firms of pursuing service innovation. Despite a … strategic focus on service-led growth, however, many firms struggle to succeed with their service innovation initiatives. In … order to increase our understanding of the nature of service innovation in product firms, this chapter discusses the …