Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

generating innovations from their R&D investment, and the innovations have a larger impact on productivity and profits. Averaging …

assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing … productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital, branding capital and organizational capital and testing whether … econometric estimates confirm strong positive productivity effects of human capital and branding capital. Results for innovative …

or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions … to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead …

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 …

technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which …This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German …

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

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 …