for innovation at home. We suggest a combination of three factors to identify and explain such innovation strategies … customers as a source for innovation that is more beneficial to standardized products and becomes more feasible if the lead … regulation. Hence, companies optimize or augment their innovation activities by invoking ideas from foreign suppliers. Then again …

We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional …

Public procurement has been at the centre of recent discussions on innovation policy on both European and national … levels (e.g., Aho-Report, Barcelona Strategy). It has a large potential to stimulate innovation since it accounts for 16% of … combined EU-15 GDP. We embed public procurement for innovation into the broader framework of public policies to stimulate …

these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal …

leadership. Apart from this strategic advantage we observe that foreign external sources of innovation are generally not superior …

Innovation success depends heavily on firm's ability to set priorities and select the most promising options from its … project portfolio before the odds of success or failure become visible and reliable. We ask: What does previous innovation … hand, research on absorptive capacities finds that previous innovation experience translates into superior ability to value …