Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …

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 …

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

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 …

Technologietransfer in Entwicklungsländer verbunden sind. Das Exportgeschäft dient als Geisel im Sinne von O. Williamson, die dazu dient …