This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

The paper deals with an analysis of the growth of innovative and non-innovative start-ups in Eastern and Western … of firms extended by aspects especially relevant for innovative firms. The most striking result is that innovative start-ups … start-ups achieve higher growth rates in the first years of existence. These rates decline with increasing age and size …

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …

This paper deals with the innovation behavior and the R&D activities at the firm level in East Germany. The theoretical … innovation and R&D lack at the firm level. …