The need for continuous sustainable innovation reflects a way in which firms overcome inertia and respond to changes in … the external environment. In manufacturing firms, the primary source of innovation comes from product-related innovation … (product innovation) and technology-related innovation (process innovation). Although economic forces have encouraged the …

We investigate factors that determine product innovation in network industries. We develop a demand …-pull-technology-push model of enterprise innovation and find that enterprise innovation depends on firm's specific abilities to extend the … industry. Enterprise innovation increases when consumers value the network development more and when consumers are less …

different innovation outcomes, using a firm-level dataset collected in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. It also … innovation sales and to create new knowledge qualified for patenting. In addition to own R&D activities, they rely on sourcing … knowledge from different sets of sources to support them to carry out the last three types of innovation outcomes. -- Innovation …