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 …

Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation … transformation than non-HCs firms. To test this hypothesis, I use data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. This allows me to identify …

Green start-ups play a vital role in the needed transition towards more environmentally sustainable economies. Yet our …-making perspectives on start-ups proenvironmental engagement to shed light on the role of founders’ personality traits - focusing on the … analysis of a large, representative, manufacturing and service sector sample of German start-ups illustrates the important role …

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

We study the blocking effect of patents on follow-on innovation by others. We posit that follow-on innovation requires … freedom to operate (FTO), which firms typically obtain through a license from the patentee holding the original innovation …. Where licensing fails, follow-on innovation is blocked unless firms gain FTO through patent invalidation. Using large …

comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact of this program on the subjective survival probability. In …