, showing how barriers to innovation and limiting steps within the R&D process are changing as a result of bioinformatics. …

: while exploration increases firms’ exposure to failure, it also provides learning opportunities to curve down innovation … failures. This paper contributes to organizational learning and innovation management research by proposing that firms …. This paper investigates a dual facet of the exploratory component of R&D activities with regards to innovation failures …

This paper compares several innovation surveys from the countries of central and eastern Europe (CEECs) with the first … EU innovation survey. Based on the innovation survey data it discusses the changes in the innovation activities in … in innovation activities come from differences in development levels. Similarities in innovation activities come from a …

innovation at the sectoral level. Despite considerable interest in David and Foray's (1995) work on the codification of knowledge … and the changing nature of innovation due to the use of information and communication technologies, there are relatively … few empirical studies that probe the role of codified sources of information in the innovation process. Our goal is to …

This paper explores the sources of ideas for innovation in engineering design. The paper shows that engineering … Arup & Partners, a leading international engineering consultancy. We examine the role of different mechanisms for learning … innovation in project-based firms, outlining patterns of innovation in firms that survive on the basis of their success in …

innovation. These mechanisms may ensure a matching between the two industries and a virtuous cycle of growth in absence of … innovation. Nevertheless, when an innovation occurs in one of the two industries and the carrying capacity of the system is …

This paper analyses the effect of financial, knowledge, demand, market structure and regulation barriers to innovation … on firms’ economic performance. It contributes to the literature on barriers to innovation in a two-fold way. First, it … disentangles the mediated effect of obstacles, via product, process and organisational innovation, on labour productivity. Second …