What Determines the Innovation Capability of Firm Founders?

What Determines Firm Size?

Motivated by theories of the rm, which we classify as \technological" or \organizational", we analyze the determinants of rm size across industries and across countries in a sample of 15 European countries. We nd that, on average, rms facing larger markets are larger. At the industry level, we nd rms in the utility sector are large, perhaps because they enjoy a natural, or o cially sanctioned, ...

What Determines Firm Boundaries in Biotech?

Knowledge sharing and firm innovation capability: an empirical study

Purpose – The study sets out to examine the influence of individual factors (enjoyment in helping others and knowledge self-efficacy), organizational factors (top management support and organizational rewards) and technology factors (information and communication technology use) on knowledge sharing processes and whether more leads to superior firm innovation capability. Design/methodology/appr...

Small firm-large firm relationships and the implications for small firm innovation: what do we know?

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What determines the efficiency of regional innovation systems ?

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function. This function relates private sector research and development (R&D) activity in a region to the number of inventions that have been registered by residents of that region. Different measures and estimation approaches lead to rather similar assessments. We find that both spillove...