process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany … CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The econometric analysis …

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 … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

downstream development unit, a buyer of the interin innovation, arise from its ability to prevent the upstream research unit from … then value of her innovation is low. By constraining the financial flexibility of the upstream unit vis-a-vis her choice …

Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known … about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different …