The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. -- knowledge management ; innovation ; matching estimator …

-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generate similar innovation success compared to …

factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R … a project differs in relation to the discovery and development stages of innovation, respectively. Our main finding is … discovery stage of innovation, while in the later development stage, the effects of competition outweigh any benefits from …

product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …

non-environmental product and process innovations. The multivariate probit analysis shows that the various innovation … types are determined by different factors. The estimation results suggest a policy mix which comprises the encouragement of … products when the implementation of all innovation types is to be supported. …

We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation. …

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …

firm’s network and geographic position on firm-level innovation output? We analyze the innovative performance of German … organizations (PRO). We use patent grants as dependent variable in order to measure firm-level innovation output. Empirical results … but quite interesting findings. -- Geographical co-location ; network positioning ; innovation output …

cultural features. Empirical validation was performed on 92 projects based in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in the …