The paper aims to show how policy makers can stimulate firms' cooperation with research organisations in innovation. We …

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm's AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …

The paper aims at estimating the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge intensive business services … manufacturing innovation is then estimated. By merging OECD data on sectoral R&D and input-output tables with sectoral patent …

innovation activities during periods of recession. We empirically analyse what general patterns can be distinguished in this …: some companies have recently reduced their innovation activities significantly, while others maintained them and a third … deceleration of R&D and innovation activities induced by the crisis, but the trend figures remain positive. Driven by the companies …

Empresas, the Spanish innovation survey conducted annually by the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE). The main …