from knowledge-intensive sectors, we estimate a structural equation model applying the partial least squares method. We …

technology affects the efficiency and productivity in innovation of technology acquiring firms. Using the stochastic frontier … analysis combined with a difference-in-difference matching approach and firm-level panel from the German Innovation Survey for … external R&D in innovation production, which is attributed by increasing returns to R&D scale and increasing technical …

Using the 2007 Mannheim innovation survey, we investigate whether family firms are more financially constrained than … other firms and how this affects both innovation input as well as innovation outcomes such as market and firm novelties or … are more likely to be constrained and have, on average, lower innovation input. Surprisingly, however, this doesnot reduce …

procurement, particularly when mediated by the demand-pull effect, may lower a company’s funding constraints for innovation. We …