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

We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance … based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights …. First, average patent importance declined from 2000-2010 but has increased more recently. Second, private Chinese firms …

effect on innovation. We develop a simple “trapped factor” model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …

-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 …

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 …