study the role that firms' and users' activities on Facebook play in the innovation process. We find that firms' adoption of … actively ask for feedback, while only negative user comments are positively and significantly related to innovation success …

study the role that firms' and users' activities on Facebook play in the innovation process. We find that firms' adoption of … actively ask for feedback, while only negative user comments are positively and significantly related to innovation success …

Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating … innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we further find that (1) the effect of institutional investors on firm patenting … robust when innovation quality is examined. …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in …

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 … stronger for firms that allocate resources more selectively at later stages of the innovation process. Based on these results …

and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation … performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To … number of different ways, and optimize their innovation process. The success of a firm's innovation strategy has two … product innovation. Second, the ability to turn the market introduction of a product innovation into commercial success. While …

We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation. …