We analyze information and knowledge transfer in a sample of 16 German regional innovation networks with almost 300 …

Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …

The literature on Innovation Systems is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition of … effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect … the regional effects on coopera- tive innovation activities. We find evidence that the related variety of knowl- edge …

This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We … incentive for private innovation activities. In contrast to the standard Schumpeterian growth framework, we account for industry … heterogeneity in terms of innovation potential. This extension allows to bring government demand policy within the realm of the …

factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R … a project differs in relation to the discovery and development stages of innovation, respectively. Our main finding is … discovery stage of innovation, while in the later development stage, the effects of competition outweigh any benefits from …

A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper …

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …