Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform … paper is to show how internal firm capabilities as well as external forces from the firm’s business and national innovation … environment impact on the firm's decision to carry out different innovation activities abroad. The analysis is based on around …

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …

In this paper we analyze the conditions under which firms decide to offshore innovation. We consider the role of … technological change. Using unique data from the German Innovation Survey we find that while high speed of technological change … tends to drive innovation offshoring, high uncertainty about future technology developments results in more innovation …

This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …

in product and process innovation for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 1990-2010. The authors find past and path … dependence and confirm the important effect of R&D effort in both types of innovation. Nevertheless, for product innovation, the … process innovation. …