shakeout using a novel data set on patenting in tires and production in the early 1920s of the cord tire, a key innovation we … also stimulate innovation and in the process reinforce the advantages of the leading incumbents, accentuating the shakeout …

innovation biographies. …

This paper studies the effects of public research (publications) and innovation output (patents) on national economic … as well as less and more developed countries are studied separately. The results confirm the effect of innovation output … on productivity for more developed countries. Simultaneously, innovation output is found to have negative impacts on …

and 2008 were analyzed in regard to the question to what extent and how the agencies assessed the innovation effects of … mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question how negative effects of mergers on innovation should be taken into … account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation …

The paper contributes to the debate on how to measure regions’ innovation performance. On the basis of the concept of … regional innovation efficiency, we propose a new measure that eases the issue of choosing between industry-specific or global … measures. We argue for the use of a robust shared-input DEA-model to estimate regions’ innovation efficiency in a global …