This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to pro duct innovation …

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 …