This paper studies how innovation strategies of Russian manufacturing firms affect various features of firm performance …. A multi stage model is used, which relates the firm's decision to undertake R&D to its innovation output, technical … economies may adopt technologies embodied in imported hardware. Additionally, we link productivity and innovation output to …

empirical results provided an affirmative response to the question raised in this paper: "Does innovation mediate good firm …

, 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 …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …