recipients' investment is less sensitive to internal liquidity. -- Research and development ; liquidity constraints ; innovation …

In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …

CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals’ area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …

market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …

The use of public procurement to promote private innovation activities has attracted increasing attention recently … to investigate whether this reform stimulated innovation in the business sector. Across a wide set of specifications …