The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. We look at innovative firms in the period from 2000 to 2002 taken from the Mannheim Innovation Panel and estimate the … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …

This study examines how inventors’ breadth and depth of expertise influence innovation in 3M, a company renowned for … sustained innovation for over a century. While prior research tends to examine a single indicator – the technical success … commercially successful products. Our study extends prior research on innovation in two ways. We provide a comprehensive view of …

External innovation increases the profits of the median firm, but also increases dispersion and the kurtosis of the … evidence that the rewards from innovation are positively skewed, we find no effect of innovation strategies upon the skewness …

innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now, in … most industries and for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught … with cost and risk. Nonetheless, standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by the …

We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

This paper investigates whether firms’ joint implementation of organisational innovation and training may foster their … adoption of environmental innovation (EI), and if this correlation falls within Porter Hypothesis (PH) framework. We study the … the adoption of all environmental innovation indeed does not come as a surprise. At this stage in the development of green …

Open labour markets are often seen as a precondition for innovation, particularly for new industries. However, this … characterised by incremental and complex innovation. Based on these considerations, we ask how mobility affects innovation in the … video games industry in the US and Japan. We find that inter-firm mobility is beneficial for innovation in the US, but has …