Regulation in the sanitation sector in Brazil is facing a great deal of debate regarding the government level in which …, we investigate how the absence of tariff regulation has dissipated efficiencies and allowed the practice of monopolistic …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to … new business models. This paper analyses the extent to which the use of AI contributes to the innovation performance of … firms. Based on firm-level data from the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2018, we examine the …

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

consensus on whether this new privacy regulation is beneficial or detrimental to innovation. This study provides empirical …In May 2018, a new regulation by the European Commission on data protection came into force, the General Data … Protection Regulation (GDPR). It requires many firms to update their data protection strategy. It may also complicate different …

-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 …

between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 … resource efficiency-improving innovations induced by regulation. These environmental innovations are significantly related to …

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of 2018 introduced stringent transparency rules compelling firms to …

their economic performance. By applying the new patent cartography developed by the EPO that identifies firm's 4.0 patents …, this is one of the first large-scale, systematic studies on the impact of 4.0 technologies. Since 4.0 patents are more … likely to be general purpose technologies, firms with 4.0 patents should be in a better position to increase their sales as 4 …