The main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on … different types of innovating firms show that an innovation performance hierarchy exists ranking from occasional innovators …

Human resource management (HRM) practices are generally expected to stimulate a firm's innovation performance. However …'s innovation activities and different types of HRM practices we find that primarily new workplace organization practices seem to … enhance a firm's innovation activities. Flexible practices of working time management and incentive payment schemes show only …

'relevant' firms. Our empirical results indeed show that the measure performs better than the standard measure in an innovation … and significant impact on innovation success. However, the knowledge spillovers appear to be localized: Spillovers from … particularly Switzerland itself. Moreover, the spillover effect on innovation performance decreases with increasing number of …

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, "buy" and "cooperate", on firm's product innovation performance … while both "buy" and "cooperate" have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …