This research investigates deals with the impact of various innovation activities on innovation output by using Spanish … innovation activities lead to differences in both the propensity to innovate and innovation output, depending on the … technological characteristics a firm has. In general, internal R&D leads to product innovation, while machinery acquisition leads to …

of technological competitiveness (based on innovation in products and markets) or cost competitiveness (relying on … innovation in processes and machinery) and their impact on economic performances. We propose models for the determinants of … Pavitt classes that group manufacturing and services industries with distinct patterns of innovation. Tests are carried out …

Since the seminal work of Archibugi and Michie (1995) on the globalization of innovation, several authors have tried to … understand the complex relationship between innovation and internationalization, mainly using firm or sectoral level data …. However, most of them tend to focus on just one form of globalization of innovation – exploitation of technology, research …

This paper analyses the role of university knowledge in innovation processes of cultural industries. Most of the … previous studies on cultural industries highlighted the importance of locally clustered firms in innovation processes. Studies … patterns and innovation processes of new media firms in Scania, Southern Sweden. The findings reveal that innovation …

plagued by low pay-off in relation to very high investments in R&D and innovation efforts. Using new data, we show that this … related to the Swedish paradox. We take account of the history of innovation policy in Sweden and – on the basis of the …