-in-differences design to causally identify the short-run impact of COVID-19 on innovation spending in 2020 and expected innovation spending … substantially reduced innovation expenditure not only in the first year of the pandemic (2020) but also in the two subsequent years …, indicating ’Long–Covid’ effects on innovation. In 2020, innovation expenditure fell by 4.7 % due to the pandemic. In 2022 …

In this paper we explore the relationship between innovative firms that patent technology related to Industry 4.0 and … their economic performance. By applying the new patent cartography developed by the EPO that identifies firm's 4.0 patents … Panel Model suggest that 4.0 patent stock is positively associated to sales and that this effect is significantly larger …

Organisation capital is one of the key intangible assets of firms, driving innovation and firm performance. Measuring … considered as a measure of a firm' organisation capital. Using panel data from the German innovation survey, we find higher … organisational innovation. …