This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … the efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less …

lack of empirical confirmation. In particular, the three-wave-scheme stands in contradiction to empirical innovation …

intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge …This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with … different locations in the knowledge space. Social capital is ignored, and firms ally purely on the basis of knowledge …

innovation in a pure knowledge economy: a 'patent box' incentive and a tax incentive on compensation earned by agents as PSS. A …In the past decades the role of profit sharing schemes (PSS) as a way to foster innovation in a principal-agent context …, and more generally of innovation in economic growth, have been widely acknowledged and studied. However, surprisingly …

The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents …

cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external knowledge. Absorptive capacity of firms develops as an outcome of … the interaction between absorptive R&D and cognitive distance from voluntary and involuntary knowledge spillovers. Thus …

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …