development of these countries. This paper aims to show the differences in innovation patterns among manufacturing firms operating … into account innovation inputs, cooperation among firms in R&D activities, the benefits of cooperation with business … partners, innovation outputs and international competitiveness. The sample consisted of 358 firms operating in both low and …

This paper investigates the differences in innovation behaviour, i.e. differences in innovation sources and innovation … into account: innovation inputs in enterprises, cooperation among firms in R&D activities, the benefits of cooperation with … business partners and innovation effects (innovation outputs and international competitiveness of firms' products and …

This paper investigates the barriers to innovation perceived by Polish manufacturing firms. It refers to the … heterogeneity of innovation active firms. We introduce a taxonomy of innovative firms based on the frequency with which they … introduce commercialised innovations using data from both CIS4 (for 2002-2004) and CIS5 (2004-2006). Two groups of innovation …

The aim of this paper is to broaden the knowledge concerning the development of Finnish firms’ innovation activities … results suggest that Finnish firms invest approximately Eur 1.8 billion in innovation activities outside the traditional R …

replaced by other activities within the innovation process. We find that for realizing product innovations RnD is the most … important factor. Thereby the role of RnD is higher the more radical an innovation is. In contrast, process and non …

geprägt. Zentrales Element ist der Wissensaustausch, der die Umsetzung einer Innovation erst ermöglicht. Die dabei generierten …, functionalities and challenges of this joint innovation develop-ment. These processes often start with resource constraints or …-tral element in this context is knowledge exchange, which is what makes the implementation of an innovation possible. The resulting …

die Konzipierung eines Lernarrangements im E-Learning zum Erlernen verschiedener Kompetenzen in der persönlichen … vorgestellt, was unter E-Learning zu verstehen ist. Anschließend wird mittels eines Analyseinstruments ermittelt, in welchem … und Vorsorge vorwiegend über E-Learning entwickelt werden können, während die Kompetenzen, die der konkreten, akuten …

spurring innovation (Section 5). The third group focuses on the financing of innovation (Section 6). Section 7 concludes. …