innovation activities of firms in the German automobile supplyindustry are investigated. …

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 …

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

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of universities in the innovation process. Against the background of … theoretical considerations about the interrelation of innovation and the adaptation of external resources, the effects of … university-based (knowledge) resources - together with other exogenous variables - on the innovation input and output of firms in …

Insights from industrial organization, Schumpeterian innovation, and economic development theories are used to try to …

Innovation Surveys (CIS) for French industry, during 1992–2004. Our main findings are that innovative firms grow more than non …-innovative ones. The estimation techniques give results that are quite robust to the effects of different types of innovation on firm … growth. In particular, the quantile regression results show that the coefficient of innovation is higher for firms with the …

innovation product are always higher. Our study does not give definitive results with respect to the magnitude of the effects of … the type of innovation on firm growth. …

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

innovation product are always higher. Our study does not give definitive results with respect to the magnitude of the effects of … the type of innovation on firm growth …