Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been … tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of innovation-related collaboration within firms. Based on a sample of 433 German … manufacturing firms we show inter-departmental innovation collaboration to increase process innovation performance, but also to …

Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been … tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of innovation related collaboration within firms. Based on a sample of 433 German … manufacturing firms we show inter-departmental innovation collaboration to increase process innovation performance, but also to …

This volume provides an understanding of firms' R&D and innovation strategies and their economy-wide consequences. It … heterogeneous ways in which firms organize and undertake R&D and innovation activities. It emphasizes innovation strategies of … innovating firms, and reflects that innovation efforts do not represent a uniform type of expenditure. Organized into three parts …

The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …

with incremental innovation typical for the mature stage of the industry life-cycle, while ties are increasingly … interregional to accommodate experimental recombination and discontinuous innovation in the decline and inception stages of the …-climbing) and the innovation network partnership (and thereby capability discovery search). To understand which technology search …

employment despite of innovation from employment via innovation. In the context of new innovation economics we model an …