Dieser Bericht präsentiert die Ergebnisse zu zwei Schwerpunktfragen der Innovationserhebung 2010 im Rahmen des Mannheimer Innovationspanels (MIP). Zum einen werden ausgewählte Aspekte des Managements von Innovationsprojekten, insbesondere im Hinblick auf Ansätze zur Flexibilität der...

Research about users as a source of innovation has been largely restricted to case studies exploring specific innovation projects at the firm level. This study assesses empirically the relationship between external end users’ knowledge as an input factor to innovation and firms’ innovation...

Based on a comprehensive data set comprising 13 countries, 22 industries and a period of 30 years we investigate the impact of internal and external knowledge pools of both green and ‘other than green’ technologies on green patent activities. It turned out that the internal green knowledge...

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, "buy" and "cooperate", on firm's product innovation performance. Taking a direct (productivity) approach, we test for...