chain of an emerging new product and how they contribute to innovation. Further, user innovation success in the market is … studies in the healthcare sector have shown that healthcare professionals are an important source of innovation. Yet, to date … the extensive medical knowledge of patients and their relatives, particularly those with chronic diseases. The overall …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding-out effects between public and private means occur. A non … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …

This study analyzes the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern … innovation activities by about four percentage points. …

This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms’ innovation performance in the context of … providing knowledge about how to cope with institutional shortfalls potentially hampering the commercial success of new products. …

variables the motives for innovation expenditures are also taken into account. We differentiate between firms which intend to …