classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firm's innovation process with this firm's investment … results indicate that firms with small budgets for innovation will not invest in basic research. This occurs in the short run …

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 …

; innovation ; environmental innovation ; organizational change ; productivity …