Our study aims at shedding light on the organizational mechanisms that produce differences in the firms' 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 …

Central concerns of research and innovation policies under uncertainty and systemic complexity are market and systemic … and innovation policies provides routines for exploiting various types learning sources”. While benchmarking is a flexible … the effectiveness of research and innovation policies and, therefore, the performances of particular countries and the …

This exploratory empirical study compares the determinants of innovation in manufacturing and services through … different innovation objectives or cooperating with different types of partners appears to have detrimental effects on service … innovation. We interpret the latter results through reference to service firms' R&D and alliance management capabilities …

Several regional technology and innovation strategy documents have been written covering every region within Finland in … regional innovation strategies of Finnish regions using one conceptual framework developed for this purpose. The basis of this … Technology and Innovation, but it also includes elements from the theories of regional innovation systems and international trade …

We document the evolution of product innovation and features in the mobile telephone handset market. We distinguish … between two types of product innovation: vertical and horizontal innovation. Using data from 1990 - 2003, we find that some …

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 …

an increase in competition. The economy transformed itself from investment-driven economy to a more innovation-driven one …