manufacturing firms. We perform direct and indirect tests for the complementarity of formal and informal technology transfer. Our … results confirm a complementary relationship: using both transfer channels contributes to higher innovation performance. The …

research grants than for development grants. We also find cross-scheme effects that may arise due to complementarity between …

research grants than for development grants. We also find cross-scheme effects that may arise due to complementarity between …

an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …-oriented firms. We further found a positive effect on innovation performance for exploration-oriented firms but not for those that …

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 …

Institutions of higher education are considered as an important source of innovation. Consequently, big efforts are … factors affect the innovation and knowledge transfer activities of male and female academics. We show that Gender differences … position) affect such innovation transfer activities. While women generate fewer inventions than men, the fulltime employed …

units are attracted by firm-type innovators and the size of such attraction. Testing the bidirectional spatial innovation … linkage contributes to the debate on firm- or university-led innovation. Using a large patent dataset from Shenzhen, the first … innovation-led city in the People's Republic of China, and employing a spatial point process analysis technique, underutilized in …