innovation are quickly matched to innovators. The mobility of innovators is also important for positive knowledge spillovers to …Workers have different abilities in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) activities. Firms have different … “prospects for innovation”. Innovation is facilitated by matching innovators, i.e. workers that are specialized in R&D&I to firms …

-related innovations. The objective of this project is to improve our knowledge about the drivers and potentials of both the adoption and … comparative firm-level study for Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Firms are not only the main source of energy-related innovation …

Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …. We then build a simple model where firms’ innovation activities and firm risk are interrelated. We use the model to …

diffusion of knowledge between firms. Non-innovation subsidies, in contrast, appear to support established industry structures …The bulk of innovation subsidies in Finland are allocated to firms in industries where the employment share of … among young firms. At the firm level, an increase in innovation subsidies is typically associated with an inflow of …

energy related policies on domestic innovation activities. Under control of the respective domestic policy stringency, we …. Hence, we see that foreign policy impacts domestic innovation primarily from the demand side. We further find that foreign … subsidies negatively affect domestic innovation activities of foreign owned firms operating in domestic. Finally, we find that …

innovation will be boosted - do not match the reality. The effects of high standards of protection - as those mandated under the …]ntellectual property is …a social contrivance purportedly designed to increase welfare, by supposedly enhancing innovation (though… it may … little to promote local innovation and economic development. The scenario for innovation in the pharmaceutical sector clearly …