This paper explores the way economic cycles influence the relationship between innovation and growth. A large … technological paradigms; a parallel stream of research has examined differences in sectoral patterns of innovation and in industries …

innovation in services and in tourism, in particular Sunbdo et al. (2007) taxonomy of tourism firms, provides us a guide to our … investigation. It is also our aim to contribute with additional findings on the process of innovation in the tourism industry. …

This paper analyses the relationship between innovation and human resource management (HRM), attempting to establish … whether innovation determines the company’s human resource management or, conversely, human resource management influences the … level of innovation of the company. Based on this review, some research hypotheses are formulated. The results mentioned in …

effectiveness and efficiency of national and European innovation policies. Building on the literature on the knowledge production …

externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to … estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm … agglomeration variables are only significant for a few specific sectors, and even then only for some types of innovation. …

innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …

innovation? This analysis is based on a review of theoretical as well as empirical literature carried out in the field of CSR of … technological innovation in small companies. We will then propose a model integrating all the dimensions identified from these …

Two eras can be distinguished in the history of innovation: era of inventor and era of researcher, even if they recover … two eras. During the first, own saving, family saving and help of associates were the only ways to finance innovation. In …

The geographical sources of innovation of firms have been hotly debated. While the traditional view is that physical … survey of the level of innovation of 1604 firms of more than 10 employees located in the five largest Norwegian city … innovation and b) the factors behind the propensity to innovate in Norwegian firms. The results stress that while interaction …