. Using a matching procedure on data from theGerman Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair … on the share of cost reductions withprocess innovation.[...] Uwe Cantner, Kristin Joel, Tobias Schmidt …

) following the adoption of automated payments in the 1970s. The analysis is cast in the context of innovation studies and looks … at the process of industry evolution by highlighting three entangled phenomena: new service innovation; the emergence and …

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. theorganizational processes through …

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sectorto co-operate on innovation projects …. Our focus is on the motives behind this decisionand the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation … activities,which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from theCanadian Survey of Innovation 2005 we find …

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

In this paper, we report on the results of a large-scale study about typical front-end-related innovation practices in …

, and managers often indicate the front end as being one of the greatest weaknesses in product innovation. Therefore, it is … surprising that only little research has treated the so called "fuzzy front end" of innovation. In this paper we discuss if …