While most economists believe that public scientific research fuels industry innovation and economic growth, systematic … size as a significant driver of drug innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, but they did not find any evidence … supporting science-driven innovation from publicly funded research. This paper uses new data on biomedical research investments …

results confirm a complementary relationship: using both transfer channels contributes to higher innovation performance. The …

client-side innovation. The aim of this paper is to contribute to resolving an empirical puzzle arising from the prior … literature. Some authors find beneficial effects of IT outsourcing, others underline that firms often fail to achieve expected … economics. We hypothesize that the right balance between internal and external knowledge is critical for innovation. The …

Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run …. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to …

biotech industry in Germany. We assume that R&D policy was driven blind by the idea to catch up with world?s biotech leaders …

Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical … evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking …

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 …

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