Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of …

In light of its importance of innovation on the political agenda it is necessary to provide guidance to decision makers … how innovation can effectively be fostered in practice and to disentangle and evaluate the effects of the determinants … suggested by the literature. This thesis focuses on the causal evaluation of three determinants of innovation that can all be …

Innovation and new product development (NPD) are critical to firm success and are often cited as means to a sustained … competitive advantage. Unfortunately, the question of which innovation programs to pursue and how they should be funded is not …