The innovation value chain (IVC) divides the innovation process into three separate links or activities: Knowledge … Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small, very open and depend significantly on innovation to maintain competitive … advantage. In recent years, however, R&D and innovation growth in Ireland has been markedly stronger than that in Switzerland …

innovation activities, prior studies using relatively large firm-level datasets to test the nature of this link are often unable … nature of the linkage between abandoned innovation and subsequent innovation outcomes at firms. We demonstrate based on … balanced panel data of Spanish manufacturing firms from 2008-2016 that innovation failure not only leads to more successful …