We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

User-producer interactions have been traditionally recognized as important for innovation. With the rapid growth of … than a south-north one, at least in terms of collaboration with customers for innovation. …

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms’ ability to adapt its … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for the …

learning and collaborative innovation. Different forms of proximity include geographical, cognitive, social, institutional and …

approach in the research fields of innovation studies and economic geography. Secondly, to propose a broadened interpretation …, regions and time periods and for analytically integrating the cognitive, organizational and spatial dimensions of innovation … knowledge base approach in empirical innovation studies, regardless of industrial, geographical or temporal context. The paper …

innovation and to mitigate grand challenges. One of the main motivations for the support of Pre-Commercial Procurement schemes … was to use public needs as a driver for innovation. This concept was also introduced as a response to the need to … reinforce the innovation capabilities of the EU, while improving the quality and efficiency of public services. However, there …