introduction of renewable energy policies. Starting with a brief overview on the induced innovation hypothesis, we show that policy … intervention has been an effective tool to change relative prices, thus, incentivizing innovation, but that also various … renewable technology innovation and respective policy support …

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 does not …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software …

about open access must include a discussion about research infrastructure and innovation in academic publishing …

We develop a composite indicator measuring the performance of national innovation systems. The indicator takes into … assessment of preconditions for innovation by managers. We apply the methodology to a set of 17 industrialized countries on a …, social capital, trust and science and technology to achieve an assessment of a country's social climate for innovation. After …

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 …

sources of finance. The scale of restructuring and innovation activity is as high or higher in transition economies as in …