This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2009 that knowledge … alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and alliances that aim at the exchange of knowledge, results suggest that … creation alliances lead to more valuable patents as they receive significantly more forward citations per patent. Knowledge …

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …

We study the effect of stronger patent protection on innovation activities of firms and firm-product level markups …

&As). Specifically, we discuss the effects of M&As on innovation, product variety, and sustainability. Although the relationship is … theoretically ambiguous, the vast majority of ex-post evaluations of horizontal M&As finds large negative effects on innovation …