used broadband Internet. Identification relies on instrumental variable estimation taking advantage of information on the … productivity whereas it exhibits a positive and significant impact on their innovation activity. …

The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …

Arbeit. ; This paper examines the determinants, that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany … general structures of the determinants of environmental innovation, as well as the specific impact of environmental policy … instruments as an integral part of this framework. The pressure of environmental policy instruments on the innovation behaviour of …

Do firms sourcing out IT services redirect their resources to innovation activity? We attempt to answer this question … ITO and product innovation activity of manufacturing firms, and a significant and hump-shaped relationship between ITO and … process innovation activity of services firms. A propensity score matching analysis takes account of reverse causality; the …

economic prospects, firms had to cut costs and reconsider their business strategies. With respect to innovation, cost cutting … often means to stop or underresource innovation projects which may harm a firm's long-term competitiveness. Firms may … therefore refrain from reducing innovation budgets during crises but rather deliberately allocate more resources to innovation …

privately financed R&D and subsidyinduced R&D investment to evaluate their respective effects on innovation performance. The …

main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent … schemes. For this, a treatment effects analysis is conducted in a first step. The results are implemented into the estimation …

substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest …: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental innovation) or on innovation that is still far from the market and … market failure is highest, that is, for radical innovation. Taking into account that the Swiss funding agency encourages …