technology affects the efficiency and productivity in innovation of technology acquiring firms. Using the stochastic frontier … analysis combined with a difference-in-difference matching approach and firm-level panel from the German Innovation Survey for … external R&D in innovation production, which is attributed by increasing returns to R&D scale and increasing technical …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …

unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is … the cause for higher return rates in the sense of both the monopoly-based and the innovation-based explanations is not …

economy. Using detailed firm-level administrative data for Germany, we find evidence that the effect of KBC on productivity is …

We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on … the supervisory boards of a particular type of firms. We exploit the fact that Germany has a two-tier corporate system …

product policy. We analyse these questions with a unique data set provided by Statistics Germany that contains both product …

&D activities of foreign companies in Germany. These results confirm that Germany is still an attractive location for R&D activites …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

We use the prolonged Greek crisis as a case study to understand how a lasting economic shock affects the innovation … strategies of firms in economies with moderate innovation activities. Adopting the 3-stage CDM model, we explore the link between … R&D, innovation, and productivity for different size groups of Greek manufacturing firms during the prolonged crisis. At …