outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

important conditions for R&D cooperation and innovation. I begin by providing a "beyond-R&D" definition of absorptive capacity … cooperative R&D on incremental product, process and radical innovation. Employing the IAB Establishment Panel Survey on about 1200 … German innovation-based establishments during 2007-2011, findings demonstrate that adoption of employment practices …

the most controversial themes in the research of innovation systems, regional networks and new economic geography. While … contexts when knowledge is novel and the innovation endeavor is more radical while this effect is less pronounced for projects …

This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This … knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and … especially when acknowledging regional innovation systems those approaches have to take into account cooperative invention and …

and patent productivity of the respective regional innovation systems (RIS). The empirical analysis is for nine German …

knowledge of new inventors effect the performance of regional innovation systems (RIS). The results suggest that the knowledge …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …