We examine the impact of the strictness of employment protection legislation on innovation intensity. To this purpose … to explain the variation of innovation intensity between industries within countries. Our estimates indicate that … stricter employment protection legislation led to significantly lower innovation intensity in industries with higher job …

We examine the links between innovation investment, innovation output and productivity in service enterprises. For this … purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Surveys 2006-2008 in Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom and … estimate an augmented structural model which links innovation inputs, innovation outputs and productivity. Our estimates …