This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

The positive impact of socio-cultural diversity on innovation and economic prosperity has been widely discussed. Yet …

The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …

managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold consequences for the innovation behaviour of plants, among others …

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European … effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. By looking at country and sector level … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …

studying whether the relative regional importance of Mittelstand firms has an effect on regional innovation performance. Using …