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. …

high growth firms, which are key in innovation and entrepreneurship policies. …

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

The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents …

This paper deals with the topic of related R&D and innovation strategies of large firms. We ask what determines the …

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 …