. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm's AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …

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 …

, theoretical studies on knowledge and labour specialization assume that an increase in the knowledge investment embodied in the … returns to labour vary with their level of knowledge capital (R&D) intensity. Our econometric analysis provides a number of … results. First, we find that more knowledge intensive firms have non-diminishing returns to labour, while less knowledge …

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 …

The globalisation of R&D activities has continued to grow as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and … market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …

Policy-makers have become increasingly aware that corporate R&D and innovation are the main drivers of an economy … concludes that policy measures to stimulate corporate R&D and innovation activities should be expressly conceived according to …