leadership. Apart from this strategic advantage we observe that foreign external sources of innovation are generally not superior …

Competitors can be valuable sources and partners for innovation activities. Against the background of international …

Innovation success depends heavily on firm's ability to set priorities and select the most promising options from its … project portfolio before the odds of success or failure become visible and reliable. We ask: What does previous innovation …, research on absorptive capacities finds that previous innovation experience translates into superior ability to value, extract …

engagements with universities propel innovation success. However, broadening the spectrum of interactions is more beneficial with … regard to innovation success. Applying latent class cluster analysis we identify four distinct patterns of interaction. Our …

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

There appears to be an ambivalent dimension in innovation strategies: timing. When is an innovation ready for the … market or when is the market ready for the innovation? This paper empirically investigates the determinants of a firm …?s decision to become a first mover or a follower in innovation strategies. Much of theoretical and empirical work has focused on …

universities propel innovation success. However, broadening the spectrum of interactions is more beneficial with regard to … innovation success. In an exploratory step we go beyond breadth and depth of interactions by identifying four distinct patterns …

these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal …