and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

The paper analyzes how geographical clustering of beneficiaries might affect the effectiveness of public innovation … facilitate innovation through knowledge spillovers and other localization advantages. Public innovation support programs may …

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 …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …

variables the motives for innovation expenditures are also taken into account. We differentiate between firms which intend to …

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 …