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 explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …

to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union … wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation - particularly product innovation - than competitive pay setting. We test … with process innovation …