This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …

existence of complementarity. We use our empirical methodology to analyze complementarity between innovation activities … external knowledge acquisition are complementary innovation activities, but that the degree of complementarity is sensitive to … research centers as an information source for the innovation process--as an important contextual variable affecting …

importance to the study of the innovation process, only recently research has started to attempt to trace researchers …' intersectoral mobility. When looking for ways to improve the transfers from science to innovation, most of the attention in the … universities to innovation based growth, should take a long-term perspective for developing an industry-science eco …

In view of the sizeable climate change challenge, we need a clean innovation machine operating at full speed. Beyond … technologies by the private sector needs to be assured to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. The private clean innovation … contribution on the motives of private sector firms for introducing clean innovations from the latest Flemish CIS eco-innovation …

information for the innovation process of the firm. Appropriability is defined as the effectiveness of several protection …

In this paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firm's innovation process with this firm's investment … results indicate that firms with small budgets for innovation will not invest in basic research. This occurs in the short run …