Process innovation is an important part of firms’ innovation activities and supposed to significantly contribute to … positive returns from innovation. Measuring process innovation output at the firm level is still in its infancy, however. This … paper reports empirical evidence on measures of process innovation output that have been collected in the German part of the …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to … new business models. This paper analyses the extent to which the use of AI contributes to the innovation performance of … firms. Based on firm-level data from the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2018, we examine the …

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

Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

-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 …

leading to higher costs for the affected firms may also promote eco-innovation activities. For the first time, the new wave of … the Community Innovation Survey 2020 in Germany allows an analysis of the effects of climate change policy and costs …, demand for climate friendly goods and extreme weather conditions on (eco-)innovation. The results of probit and treatment …

Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known … environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … former evidence that persistency in innovation is driven by true state dependence. More importantly, we find that the local …

workers from other firms. Based on data from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses the role of different types … of intended and unintended knowledge spillovers for innovation output at the firm level. Among intended knowledge … spillovers, using knowledge from patents shows the strongest link to innovation output, particularly in case of product …

consensus on whether this new privacy regulation is beneficial or detrimental to innovation. This study provides empirical … evidence on the impact of the GDPR on innovation activities in firms. Exploiting panel data from the German innovation survey …, a difference-in-difference analysis shows that the GDPR stimulated additional innovation activity while shifting the …

Public financial support for firm-level Research and Innovation (R&I) can generate important socio-economic returns …. This is especially true if firms use this support to develop radical innovation, defined as new-to-market goods and … services. However, radical innovation is risky, and prone to failure. Therefore, subsidising radical innovation can also …