. While the individual effects of engaging in the listed practices on firm innovation are well-understood, the existing … sample of innovation-active firms from the German Community Innovation Survey, which includes information on the development … of standards, enhanced with information on firms' engagement in patenting and publishing. We find that 26% of innovation …

product innovation is stronger when firms provided feedback at the interim stages. In contrast, whether and how firms set … milestones was not associated with the likelihood of product innovation. The marginal effect of feedback was larger for new …-to-market product innovation than for new-to-firm product innovation, and the feedback from non-R&D organizations within the firm in the …

Innovation Survey and a conditional difference-in-differences methodology, we find a positive effect of industry …-science collaboration on product innovation success only for joint R&D, but not for the other three channels. The positive effect is limited … into forms of collaboration that are effective in producing higher innovation output. …

Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation … transformation than non-HCs firms. To test this hypothesis, I use data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. This allows me to identify …