Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …

rare and contradictory. A uniquely rich industry-level dataset for Germany is used in this paper to test whether large …

Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in … innovation within a multivariate regression framework. However, when instrumenting training by the existence of a union …

Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non …

identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and … particularly interesting as Polish immigration to Germany was not based on selection by qualification in our period of analysis. …