We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …

innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across … regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation …, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, R&D intensity, and product innovation …

This paper analyzes the impact of technological diversity on innovation inputs and success using Swiss firm-level panel … applications as suggested by the literature. However, since patent applications reflect an intermediate innovation input rather …

, but we do not find evidence for the reverse effect. When additionally looking at innovation performance, R&D activities …

'relevant' firms. Our empirical results indeed show that the measure performs better than the standard measure in an innovation … and significant impact on innovation success. However, the knowledge spillovers appear to be localized: Spillovers from … particularly Switzerland itself. Moreover, the spillover effect on innovation performance decreases with increasing number of …

industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the share … an increasing lag between energy prices and innovation activities. Robustness tests confirm the main results. …

distinguish clearly between adoption and use of energy-related technologies (process innovation in the broad sense) and product … innovation in energy-related fields. We take into consideration four energy-related policy instruments (and expected demand for … adoption or innovation by interacting adoption and innovation variables with policy instrument dummies. We test our hypotheses …