months of the crisis, SMEs as the backbone of Europe’s real economy benefited from large and mainly indiscriminate aid …

individual's re-migration decision and employment behaviour. To take into account the institutional aspects of the German guest …

heterogeneous across countries: Innovation leaders and followers behave countercyclically during recessions while moderate … countries behind the innovation frontier might strengthen their resilience to economic crises by adopting countercyclical R …

Among available policy levers to boost innovation, investment in applied research organisations has received little … system and merge it with the German contribution to the Community Innovation Survey (CIS), which contains panel information …

of the hypotheses raised in this literature. It employs the data of the first wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel …&D we also used the concept of total innovation expenditures to capture the importance of non R& D innovation activities … which are especially important for small firms. (3) We give reliable estimates on the occurrence of R&D and innovation …