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R&D partnerships and innovation performance: Can there be too much of a good thing?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and … gains from collaboration can be high initially, cost may start to outweigh those benefits if firms engage in multiple … collaborative projects simultaneously. This study explicitly considers a firm's collaboration intensity, that is, the share of …
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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement
Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO's individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees' knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas...
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Costs and benefits of inter-departmental innovation collaboration
Cuijpers, Maarten; Guenter, Hannes; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been … tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of innovation-related collaboration within firms. Based on a sample of 433 German … manufacturing firms we show inter-departmental innovation collaboration to increase process innovation performance, but also to …
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The impact of brand use on innovation performance: Empirical results for Germany
Crass, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To achieve this objective most efficiently, firms strengthen their technological capabilities, acquire external knowledge in a number of different ways, and optimize their...
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Resource allocation flexibility for innovation performance: The effects of breadth, uncertainty, and selectiveness
Klingebiel, Ronald; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Our study shows empirically that the choice of resource allocation strategy affects innovation performance. A policy of allocating resources to a broader range of innovation projects increases sales of new products, especially if these are truly novel, i.e. new to the market. The effect of...
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Does professional knowledge management improve innovation performance at the firm level?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
The concept of knowledge has gained in interest since industrialized economics have induced a shift in importance from labor, capital and natural resources towards intellectual resources. This study investigates how the management of knowledge influences the innovation performance of a firm....
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