Wir untersuchen die Rolle von Vertragstypen und Zugangsregulierung auf Innovation und Wettbewerb. In einem Duopolmodell …

This study examines the consequences of loan denials for the investment performance of small and medium-sized German … investment than non-innovative companies. The non-randomness of loan denials is controlled for with a selection equation …

-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms' competitiveness. Since … innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating … environmental damage. Using matching techniques, we study the short-term effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on …

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … organizational processes and structures. Starting from complexity theory, we use three consecutive waves of the German part of the … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness …

This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …

. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were …This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …

technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which …This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German …