This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time
using an innovation panel data set on German manufacturing and service firms for the …

This paper studies the persistence of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an
unbalanced panel of firm data from four waves of the Community Innovation Survey between …

An important topic in the recent literature on firms' innovation is the question of whether, and
to what extent, firms which innovate once have a higher probability of innovating again in …

This study focuses on the persistence of innovation in a panel of Spanish manufacturing
firms for the period 1990–2008. In particular, we analyse whether persistence in firms' …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to test the major determinants of technological
(product and process) innovation persistence and provides evidence of the significant role of …

We present a dynamic empirical model of a firm's R&D decisions that is consistent with the
existence of sunk R&D costs, taking into account that these costs may differ between small …

The term innovation generally means 'something new'–and this monograph is an innovation
in a sense that it provides the reader with some new insights into the consequences of …

This paper introduces the special issue on innovation persistence. It delineates three
complementary theoretical frameworks assessing drivers and implications of innovation …

The authors examine the differences in the behavior of the innovation between the Spanish
agrifood and manufacturing firms using firm‐level data from 1990–2008 to analyze the …

Innovation activities of firms tend to be highly persistent. Yet, little is still known about
potential spatial contingencies affecting the degree of persistence. This paper analyses the …