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

networks of four selected regions are based on information on patent applicants and inventors. Count data regressions show … positive effects on innovation of both the total number of relations and of access to a larger knowledge base. However, when … some sort of public good to the innovation system. -- Innovator networks ; Gatekeeper ; Zero Iflated Generalised Poisson …

knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out … measures constructed from innovation survey data appear to work reasonably well while measures of the Euclidean technological …

establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm’s total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when … we consider only generalized training and innovation. Finally, no significant relation is found between training …

, we combine information from patent applications, scientific publications and higher education statistics. We find that …

is, however, different for regions at different efficiency levels. -- Efficiency ; innovation ; spillovers ; patents …

This paper documents the generation and the content of the Comprehensive Patent Database (CPDB) of the German … contains all patents granted in the GDR and published by the Office of Inventions and Patents (AfEP, later: German Patent and … purpose of research on innovation activity in the GDR. …

We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent …