Using the 2007 Mannheim innovation survey, we investigate whether family firms are more financially constrained than … other firms and how this affects both innovation input as well as innovation outcomes such as market and firm novelties or … are more likely to be constrained and have, on average, lower innovation input. Surprisingly, however, this doesnot reduce …

examines the innovation determinants of M&A activity and the consequences of M&A transactions on the technological potential … and the innovation performance. We examine the telecommunications equipment industry over the period 1988-2002 using a … newly constructed data set with firm-level data describing M&A and innovation activity as well as financial characteristics …

from knowledge-intensive sectors, we estimate a structural equation model applying the partial least squares method. We …

Research and development is seen as a key contributor to growth because it generates knowledge, leading to new or … improved products through product innovation, and makes firms more efficient at producing goods through process innovation … relationship between productivity growth, innovation and digital technology adoption plays out is particularly important for the …

highly-developed innovation profiles. Analysis of the prerequisites for knowledge-based growth indicates that transition … eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, in order to identify which countries have established a knowledge-based growth … by the working paper measure up according to traditional innovation input and output indicators. But the major part of …

technology affects the efficiency and productivity in innovation of technology acquiring firms. Using the stochastic frontier … analysis combined with a difference-in-difference matching approach and firm-level panel from the German Innovation Survey for … external R&D in innovation production, which is attributed by increasing returns to R&D scale and increasing technical …

and in knowledge-intensive service industries make a larger direct contribution to employment than start-ups affiliated … with other industries. We also find a relatively strong overall effect of new business formation in knowledge …