prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors decrease …

innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the …

realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation. …

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sector to co-operate on innovation … innovation activities, which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from the Canadian Survey of Innovation …

the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We …

Innovation success depends heavily on firm's ability to set priorities and select the most promising options from its … project portfolio before the odds of success or failure become visible and reliable. We ask: What does previous innovation …, research on absorptive capacities finds that previous innovation experience translates into superior ability to value, extract …

There appears to be an ambivalent dimension in innovation strategies: timing. When is an innovation ready for the … market or when is the market ready for the innovation? This paper empirically investigates the determinants of a firm …?s decision to become a first mover or a follower in innovation strategies. Much of theoretical and empirical work has focused on …