investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … embeddedness in scientific, vertical and horizontal innovation systems. However, the advantage of higher R&D intensity and possible … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …-productivity relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …

This paper outlines a set of fundamental changes in the global economy that have altered the nature of the innovation … innovation. Against the background of a changing global economy, the purpose of the paper is to make an overview over the role … and drivers of innovation, technology and knowledge. The role of absorptive capacity and knowledge flows between economic …

the argument that innovation systems are important for an industry’s capacity to generate new patentable knowledge. …

This paper analyzes how different innovation-strategies of incumbent firms affect the quality of their entrepreneurial … files for the period 1997-2008, three types of incumbent firms are distinguished: firms that are engaged in innovation … new firm can be linked back to the innovation strategy of the parent firm. In contrast, there is strong evidence that …

creativity, innovation and subsequent economic growth in the economy. There-fore, it is important to focus policies in Europe on … ideas for a new type of spatial policies in Europe focusing on innovation and growth. For in-stance, there is a need to take … real innovation nodes by developing more elite universities with a proper R&D funding and a ca-pacity to compete with the …

This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities … convincing attempt to investigate the direction of the causal link between exports and innovation activities. …