This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …

This paper uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate for the first time the links between innovation activities …; number of goods exported) for manufacturing enterprises in Germany, the third largest exporter of goods on the world market …

Purpose: Innovation, including product, process, marketing, and organizational innovation within a firm, is considered … as one of essential component for surviving and growing. These innovation activities create value and competitive … advantages for successful organizations; therefore, understanding the organization's overall innovation is the first and foremost …

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … applied to a newly constructed panel for Germany. Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation techniques for dynamic panel … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …