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 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 authors use the insights from strategy research and innovation studies to address two principal questions regarding … Innovation Survey for Polish service firms. They propose a set of indicators reflecting four principal fields of technology …

This paper uses obstacles to innovation to investigate the heterogeneity of Polish innovating firms. Based on the … distinguishes between two groups of innovating firms: those which introduced innovation in both periods covered by both CIS (called … persistent innovators) and those which introduced innovation either in CIS4 or CIS5 (occasional innovators). Two steps analysis …

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 …

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 …