The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of technological opportunities on the innovation activities of firms …

innovation activities of firms in the German automobile supply industry are investigated. We observe that the contribution of … academic research to firms' innovation activities is less important than the relevance of industrial sources but yet, the most … likely partners for formal R&D co-operations are universities. Using measures of suppliers' innovation input and output, we …

shumpeterian theory of innovation as an evolutionary theory of the firm ante litteram …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of technological opportunities on the innovation activities of firms …, different innovation effects were empirically outlined for the German manufacturing industry for the first time. On the … innovation input side, the effects of science-related technological opportunities in combination with absorptive capacities …

) or to the improvement of the quality of machines without altering their underlying technology (innovations). Learning … in expanding the technology frontier; (b) when inventions occur they tend to arrive in clusters; and (c) a life-cycle of … technologies during the early stages of which a discovery is followed by a period of rapid economic growth and innovation, and the …

radical innovation due to the possibility that the mass adoption of self-driving cars would not only radically change everyday … framework of responsible innovation …

industrial innovation activities. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to investigate empirically the importance of R …&D cooperations with universities for the innovation activities of suppliers in the German automobile industry. Relevance, motives … with universities are prefered because automobile suppliers can enhance their technological innovation capacities to …

innovation activities of firms in the German automobile supply industry are investigated. We observe that the contribution of … academic research to firms' innovation activities is less important than the relevance of industrial sources but yet, the most … likely partners for formal R&D co-operations are universities. Using measures of suppliers' innovation input and output, we …

Die Entwicklung und Nutzung neuer Technologien basiert zunehmend darauf, daß akademische Forschung und industrielle … industrial innovation activities. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to investigate empirically the importance of R …&D cooperations with universities for the innovation activities of suppliers in the German automobile industry. Relevance, motives …