In Germany, R&D subsidies are an important tool to support innovation in the private sector. This paper studies the …

From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer …

Among available policy levers to boost innovation, investment in applied research organisations has received little … system and merge it with the German contribution to the Community Innovation Survey (CIS), which contains panel information …

Innovation is considered as a main driver of economic growth. Promoting the development of innovation through STI … (science, technology and innovation) policies requires accurate indicators of innovation. Traditional indicators often lack …. In this paper, we propose a novel approach on how to create firm-level innovation indicators at the scale of millions of …

This paper analyses the role of creative industries in affecting an economy's innovation performance. We conducted a … innovative sectors in the economy. They support innovation in a variety of other sectors through creative inputs, such as ideas … for new products (i.e. innovation content), supplementary products and services (such as software) or marketing support …

This study examines the effect of R&D tax credits on innovation activities of Canadian manufacturing firms. Over the … on a series of innovation indicators such as number of new products, sales with new products, originality of innovation … additional innovation output. …

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …