this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by visiting selected paper mills in Finland, the U.S., Germany and … relatively similar firms lends credence to the insights provided by Denrell, Fang and Winter (2003) and Zott (2003), among others … innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization …

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by …

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …

This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to …

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …