This research investigates deals with the impact of various innovation activities on innovation output by using Spanish … CIS3 data on 3,247 innovative firms and applying several Knowledge Production Functions. It is confirmed that different … innovation activities lead to differences in both the propensity to innovate and innovation output, depending on the …

The rise of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) may be considered as one of the decisive trends of economic … subsystem approach to input-output matrix analysis to study the vertical integration of knowledge-based business services into … manufacturing sectors. To date, companies increasingly rely on outside innovation for new products and processes and have become …

two activities: knowledge search and knowledge deployment. We predict theoretically that domestic firms have advantages … when they search for knowledge due to their embeddedness in the host country. However, this increased embeddedness reduces … the degree of novelty of their knowledge pool. Foreign MNC subsidiaries therefore have advantages in knowledge deployment …

can be summarised along the following lines: knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm's productivity …

demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …

innovation activities during periods of recession. We empirically analyse what general patterns can be distinguished in this …: some companies have recently reduced their innovation activities significantly, while others maintained them and a third … deceleration of R&D and innovation activities induced by the crisis, but the trend figures remain positive. Driven by the companies …

role of innovation, demand, wages and the composition of employment by professional groups. A model is developed and an … innovation leads to job losses and wage growth has a negative effect that is lower than in other industries. Business services …

' innovation performance. In addition, it specifically analyses whether a firm's size affects the amount spent on design and the … return in terms of innovation output to this activity. In doing so, it partly compensates for the lack of empirical evidence …

Empresas, the Spanish innovation survey conducted annually by the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE). The main …

This paper investigates the innovation impact of intangibles by considering the decision of firms to invest in a … these investments are directed to. Intangibles need to be managed strategically in order to have an innovation impact and …