Our study focuses on the question, whether users should be intensively involved in the innovation process of radical … question arises, whether users play a productive role in the innovation process of radical innovations at all, or if their … contributions might even be counterproductive. To gain a better understanding for the users’ role in radical innovation and to …

constructs measures of relative total factor productivity for eleven Japanese manufacturingindustries and uses dynamic panel data … methods to test whether a smaller productivity gap leadsto slower growth, and whether R&D takes over as the engine of growth … as Japan approaches thetechnological frontier. The results suggest that Japanese and US productivity have been growingat …

The intensive concern with customer needs and problems is one of the key contributors to the success of innovation … these procedures to different industrial sectors and types of firms as well as the benefit achieved for innovation in … International Innovation Management of the University of Bern (*). The scope was extended to the chemical... …

, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontiertechnique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique … results of this study suggest that – if the aim is to leverage companies’productivity – emphasis should be put on supporting … lowtechsector turns out to have a minor effect. Instead, encouraging investment in fixed assetsappears vital for the productivity of …

over the 1990s. This paper uses data on large UK firms toanalyse the link between R&D and productivity over the 1989 …

The survey assessed senior managers' views of and experiences with the innovation-to-cash process. …

This paper deals with the coordination mechanismus for R&D and innovation concering transnational corporations. …