social and institutional innovation in both eco-innovation theory and policy. …Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the … need can be identified to improve our understanding of innovation processes toward sustainability in their different …

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 …

, regional or national innovation systems. The paper argues that in order to prevent the fruitful and more realistic evolutionary … alternative evolutionary explanation of EU regional policy which is able to overcome the theory-immanent contradiction of the …

otherwise visible to society. We develop a structural model of initial and follow-on innovation to determine the effects of such … a shift in disclosure on overall welfare in industries characterized by cumulative innovation. We find that while … significant decline in follow-on innovation. …

We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …

given by different sponsors (the federal government, the Länder and the European Union). Recent theory stresses the … importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national …

Theory suggests that new market entrants play a special role for the creation of new technological pathways required …