manufacturing. Results from our structural models indicate that KIS firms benefit from innovation activities through increased labor … productivity with highly skilled employees being similarly important compared to R&D for creating innovation output in microfirms … firms having a higher probability of initiating innovation activities and of successfully turning knowledge into innovation …

organizations in their direct cooperation surrounding—benefit from radical innovations in terms of subsequent innovation performance … confirm that radical innovations initiate a positive impulse for innovation through direct cooperative relationships … firms benefit from knowledge spillover transferred through formal cooperation. A radical innovation represents a novel and …

The aim of this paper is to introduce the special issue of Small Business Economics on "Radical Innovation … between the literature on radical innovation, entrepreneurship, and (regional) growth is still an underresearched topic. This …

knowledge spillovers; they serve as central actors of innovation networks and stimulate network activities. Whereas the linkages … between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the determinants of patent quality in terms … centrality of respective institutions within innovation networks reinforces the radicalness of inventions. However, we do not …