The 'doing-using-interacting mode' of innovation (DUI) is considered an important component of innovative activity. It … describes informal innovative activities and thus complements the 'science-technology-innovation mode' (STI) based on research … DUI mode and how they should be measured. Based upon 81 in-depth interviews with German SMEs and regional innovation …

Private innovative activities receive public innovation support from different political levels. Few studies have … empirically evaluated the influence of political systems on the reception of public innovation support and no other studies have … evaluated innovation support across Europe with CIS data. This paper analyses the differences between federal, semi-federal and …

Public innovation support claims to reach out to firms facing barriers to innovate, especially smaller firms. Earlier … evaluation first uses the Mannheim Innovation Panel for empirical evidence in Germany and later the Community ... …

' participation in initial VET and their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models show that the impact of … VET activity on innovation is indeed ambiguous. Overall, as expected, participation in initial VET has virtually no effect … on radical product innovation. However, a positive impact of training apprentices is observed in case of incremental …

' participation in initial VET on their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models and instrumental variable … regressions with entropy balancing show that the impact of VET activity on innovation is more ambiguous than postulated. Overall …, the participation in initial VET has virtually no effect on product innovation and radical novelties. For the total …

' participation in initial VET and their innovation outcomes. Our results show that the direct effects of initial VET on technological … innovation in small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are on average quite weak. If at all, a training firm's initial VET … activities are associated with production innovation activities and not with process innovation. Larger effects can only be …

Private innovative activities receive public innovation support from different political levels. Few studies have … empirically evaluated the influence of political systems on the reception of public innovation support and no other studies have … evaluated innovation support across Europe with CIS data. This paper analyses the differences between federal, semi-federal and …

a positive impact on firm-level innovation, empirical evidence on the subject remains scarce. This study exploits … initial VET and their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models and entropy balancing show that the … relationship between VET activity and innovation are more ambiguous than often postulated. Overall, the participation in initial …