This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

Extending a recently developed multi-product model and distinguishing between different product and process innovation … activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

variables the motives for innovation expenditures are also taken into account. We differentiate between firms which intend to …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

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 …

CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals' area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …