Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … innovation activities. Using data from the Community Innovation Survey on Belgian manufacturing firms, we show that firms that …

We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … manufacturing firms for 1990-1998. Our results - based on non-parametric tests - suggest that firm innovation status is important in … innovation seems to explain the positive association between exports and productivity for this group of firms. For small non …

This paper investigates the barriers to innovation perceived by Polish manufacturing firms. It refers to the … heterogeneity of innovation active firms. We introduce a taxonomy of innovative firms based on the frequency with which they … introduce commercialised innovations using data from both CIS4 (for 2002-2004) and CIS5 (2004-2006). Two groups of innovation …

&D) strategies using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data on the Dutch manufacturing sector. The focus of the research is whether M …&A affect corporate innovation strategies, favouring in-house R&D and innovation expenses versus external technological sourcing …. The results show that M&A activities have a positive and significant impact on innovation investments by firms, and …

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and process innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net- works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. knowledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

This paper asks whether there is evidence of higher innovation output from firms where there is more foreign activity … in terms of foreign direct investments (FDI), trade and collaboration on innovation, or if proximity between innovators … innovation. The most important aspect of the local milieu on innovation is skilled labour. …

We consider procurement of an innovation from heterogeneous sellers. Innovations are random but depend on unobservable … admission to an innovation contest. After the contest, an innovation is procured employing either a fixed prize or a first …

This paper investigates sources of product or process innovation, such as investments in research and development … of positive absorptive capacity emerges only in firms with low predicted probabilities of introducing innovation. …