This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the … technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of the firm's innovation strategy. We take …

External knowledge is an important input for the innovation process of firms. Increasingly, this knowledge is likely to …

This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …

While the impact of M&A on R&D and innovation examined at the aggregate level left inconclusive evidence, we find that …

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to successfully innovate, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … innovation activities. Using data from the Community Innovation Survey on Belgian manufacturing firms, we show that firms that …