paper is to assess the role of user communities in fostering firms' innovation in all types of innovation. Econometric … estimations identified the user community as a driver of innovation propensity. Additionally, the relevance of these communities … across all types of innovation (mainly for product and process innovation) was proven. Robustness analysis confirmed the …

Obtaining indicators on innovation activities of firms has been a challenge in economic research for a long time. The … throughputs in the innovation process. Output measurement of innovation has strongly been relying on survey data such as the … Community Innovation Survey (CIS), but suffers from several short-comings typical to sample surveys, including incomplete …