product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to … new business models. This paper analyses the extent to which the use of AI contributes to the innovation performance of … firms. Based on firm-level data from the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2018, we examine the …

Organisation capital is one of the key intangible assets of firms, driving innovation and firm performance. Measuring … databases, firm-specific human capital, brand equity), but excluding organisation capital. The residuum of the estimation is … considered as a measure of a firm' organisation capital. Using panel data from the German innovation survey, we find higher …

the Community Innovation Survey 2020 in Germany allows an analysis of the effects of climate change policy and costs … leading to higher costs for the affected firms may also promote eco-innovation activities. For the first time, the new wave of …, demand for climate friendly goods and extreme weather conditions on (eco-)innovation. The results of probit and treatment …

enterprise sector. Based on a survey of public research units in natural sciences and engineering in Germany, we analyse the … interaction in the past. Econometric estimation results suggest that Internet contact to firms is more likely to be established by …

workers from other firms. Based on data from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses the role of different types … of intended and unintended knowledge spillovers for innovation output at the firm level. Among intended knowledge … spillovers, using knowledge from patents shows the strongest link to innovation output, particularly in case of product …

Process innovation is an important part of firms’ innovation activities and supposed to significantly contribute to … positive returns from innovation. Measuring process innovation output at the firm level is still in its infancy, however. This … paper reports empirical evidence on measures of process innovation output that have been collected in the German part of the …

Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known … environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … representative panel data set of firms in Germany from 2002-2016, complemented by detailed geographic information of patent activity …

-in-differences design to causally identify the short-run impact of COVID-19 on innovation spending in 2020 and expected innovation spending … substantially reduced innovation expenditure not only in the first year of the pandemic (2020) but also in the two subsequent years …, indicating ’Long–Covid’ effects on innovation. In 2020, innovation expenditure fell by 4.7 % due to the pandemic. In 2022 …