which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity …

private net benefits of firms operating under such regulation can be increased. This paper analyses the Porter hypothesis with …

. “Forward” citations (citations to the firm’s patents made by other patents) have been interpreted as a measure of the knowledge … technology flows. It uses information from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) collected by the French Service des Statistiques … Industrielles (SESSI), which contain firms’ responses to questions about their innovative activity. We show that patent citations …

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 … confirm the hypothesis of true state dependence for manufacturing as well as for service sector firms. In addition to past …

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 … independent of the novelty degree. Moreover, different employment effects between manufacturing and service firms regarding …

issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …

bringing together a number of threads within the innovation literature my claim is that consumers, akin to firms, follow … trial-and-error and learning by consuming. The key question that is addressed is: how do consumers deal with innovation? By …