This paper analyses the determinants of technological diversification for small innovative companies. Using patent data from the PATSTAT database for the period between 1990 and 2006, we explore technological diversification through a panel data set comprising 811 UK based serial innovators...

This paper presents a simple profitability based decision model to show how synergistic gains generated by the joint adoption of complementary innovations may influence the firm’s adoption decision. For this purpose a weighted index of intra-firm diffusion is built to investigate empirically...

Technological diffusion is defined widely as the process by which the market for a new technology changes over time and from which production and usage patterns of new products and production processes result. This chapter looks at both the demand and supply sides of this process at differing...

It has been suggested that a paradigm shift is taking place, from the old model of product innovation based on in-house R&D, to a new model based on the intensive use of external sources (search depth). We test this using Eurostat CIS4 data for 40 sectors in 18 European countries. The findings...