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 …

This paper deals with the innovation behavior and the R&D activities at the firm level in East Germany. The theoretical … innovation and R&D lack at the firm level. …

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

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 … firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent …

Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries … the competition shock to the European textile sector, triggered by the 2001 removal of import quotas on Chinese textiles …