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 …

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 …

leadership and customisation. HCs are more open in their knowledge management, but without compromising control over the new … product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel …

-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 …

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 …

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 …