This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany. …

Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom …The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel … data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the …

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

In this paper we study the effect of unions on product and process innovation both theoretically and empirically. We … innovation does not necessarily survive. When the voice effect is neither too strong nor too low, the unionized sector … outperforms the market in terms of process innovation, while the effect on product innovation is strictly increasing in the voice …

the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …