This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the … industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation …

Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the … industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm's innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known … environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … former evidence that persistency in innovation is driven by true state dependence. More importantly, we find that the local …

This paper analyses the persistency in innovation behaviour of firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation … Transition Probability Matrix, we found evidence of (unconditional) state dependence in all types of innovation, with product …

In this paper we investigate how various innovation strategies, local knowledge sources and global knowledge pipe …

, as well as vice versa. Firm's relative position in innovation matters in the long run: the probability to earn profits …

Arrangements to cooperate on innovation facilitate access to external sources of knowledge. Using panel data derived … from five waves of Community Innovation Survey in the Czech Republic, we examine whether firms engage in these arrangements … initiating cooperation on innovation therefore have the potential to induce durable changes in the innovative behaviour of firms. …