The main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on possible differences between these two kinds of innovative activity. Thus, it tries to answer the following questions: (a) what are the determinants of imitative performance...

Unternehmen in der Schweiz gehören nach wie vor zu den Innovationsstärksten der Welt. Allerdings hat die Innovationstätigkeit - zumindest bei einigen Indikatoren - seit der Periode 2000 - 02 nachgelassen. Dies zeigen die Ergebnisse der 10. Innovationserhebung zur Schweizer Wirtschaft für die...

We propose a new patent-based measure of knowledge spillovers that calculates technological proximity based on firms that were identified via patent backward citations links. We argue that this measure has a couple of advantages as compared to the 'standard' measure proposed by Ja e: First, it...