market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …

We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation. …

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

as reduced remuneration and job loss. However, managers might over-invest into innovation for reasons of growth implying … their own interests. When entrenched, managers do not fear detrimental effects of risky innovation projects on their career …, and hence tend to over-invest into innovation. -- Corporate governance ; managerial ownership ; entrenchment ; innovation …

innovation activities of their business customers. Individual banks' liquidity shocks are identified by the degree of interbank … total innovation expenditures in comparison to the periods before. Our results imply that those firms which have a business … relation to a bank with higher interbank market reliance reduce their innovation activities during the financial crisis to a …

financial crisis 2008/2009 on their business customers’ innovation activity. Using a matched bank-firm data set for Germany, we … find that having relations with a more severely affected bank seriously hampers firms’ current innovation activities due to … initiate new product and process innovations and to reallocate human resources to innovation during the financial crisis. …