This Policy Brief presents recent results on the impact that an open innovation mode has on European firms … innovation performance of firms. However, the way firms search for external knowledge and work to absorb it can lead them to … different results, depending on whether they are involved in the adoption of an eco-innovation or the extension of their eco-innovation …

. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm’s AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …

The paper aims to show how policy makers can stimulate firms' cooperation with research organisations in innovation. We …

. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm’s AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …

The paper aims to show how policy makers can stimulate firms' cooperation with research organisations in innovation. We …