We study the implications of services trade for firm innovation. Using a quasi-experimental shift-share design, we find …’ innovation efficiency by mitigating decreasing economies of scale in in-house innovation efforts. As a result, firms become more … likely to outsource innovation efforts as they become more innovative, whereas the prevalence of offshoring depends on its …

Public procurement accounts for 15 to 20 percent of global GDP and is considered an effective innovation policy …

-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 …

the Community Innovation Survey 2020 in Germany allows an analysis of the effects of climate change policy and costs … leading to higher costs for the affected firms may also promote eco-innovation activities. For the first time, the new wave of …, demand for climate friendly goods and extreme weather conditions on (eco-)innovation. The results of probit and treatment …

.S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and Germany, using detailed firm …

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

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 …