Companies face an expanding set of choices about where to locate their innovation activity, both within their home … of innovation activity : almost by definition, multiple locations per firm imply some degree of decentralization. Using … firm-level data on innovation output and the location of research and development (R&D) activity, we shed new light on the …

Our study aims at shedding light on the organizational mechanisms that produce differences in the firmsŽ innovation … fruitful for innovation. There are vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between the … small and large firms, and between the firms that are functioning in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in the …

words, the larger the knowledge pool of an inventor entering (leaving) the firm, the more the firm’s innovation performance … pharmaceuticals and mechanical engineering such that the mobility of an inventor to a firm increases its innovation performance but … the mobility of an inventor from a firm does not affect its innovation performance. We further find that particularly …

Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …. We then build a simple model where firms’ innovation activities and firm risk are interrelated. We use the model to …

findings emphasize the role of a firms absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …

organizations in the Finnish innovation and business support system. Finpro regards its mission to include increasingly a role of an …