innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …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 period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at …

A growing literature investigates how firms' innovation input reacts to changes in the business cycle. However, so far … there is no evidence whether there is cyclicality in the effects of innovation on firm performance as well. In this paper …. (2014), our empirical analysis reveals four important findings: First, the net effect of product innovation on employment …

-technology manufacturing shows the strongest employment gains and losses from innovation, followed by knowledge-intensive services, low …-technology manufacturing and less knowledge-intensive services. The net contribution of innovation to employment growth is mostly positive, an … dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding-out effects between public and private means occur. A non … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …

This study analyzes the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern … innovation activities by about four percentage points. …