emphasis on technology which can be found in the recent literature, our estimation results indicate that numerical superiority …

leadership. Apart from this strategic advantage we observe that foreign external sources of innovation are generally not superior …

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …

innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as …

This study focuses on the effect of public funding on internal R&D investment and on total innovation intensity on a …, our estimation also takes into account the “treatment effects on the untreated”. This estimation enables us to assess … whether or not governments could further foster R&D activities by extending innovation policies to currently not supported …

term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the … Community Innovation Survey 2009, in which companies were asked to cite the respective regulations to be responsive for the … regulation on innovation. Furthermore, different types of regulations varied with respect to their impact on several …

Extending a recently developed multiproduct model and distinguishing between different product and process innovation … activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firmlevel employment effects of innovations using specific …