include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …

uncertainty and innovation-driven competition among firms. In this work we survey the state-of-the-art in the analysis of such … evolutionary processes. We start by asking whether there are some invariances in the knowledge structure and in the ways … technological knowledge accumulates and, together, what distinguishes different fields and different periods of technological …

importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management … establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm's total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when …

literature. We discuss if lock-ins are really inescapable, especially when innovation is concerned. Also, we address the question …

This paper is concerned with the relationship between innovative success of entrepreneurs and their prior knowledge at … evidence that the innovative success subsequent to firm formation is enhanced by entrepreneur's prior technological knowledge … but not by prior market and organizational knowledge. Moreover we find that prior technological knowledge gathered through …