innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual … impact of counterfeiting on the performance of companies has not been tested empirically, due to methodological problems … counterfeiting could have in part a beneficial effect on the performance of companies, due to indirect advertising, calling for …

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firm performance, measured …

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … of introducing product/process innovations, but that the ensuing economic performance is rather associated to the role of … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …