We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …

Recent studies in the tradition of Schmookler have re-emphasised the potential role of demand in stimulating innovation …. Here, we reconsider the role of "home" and "export" market demand in stimulating manufacturing innovation using comparable … innovation production functions using panel data estimators over the sample period 1994 to 2005. For a range of innovation …

innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across … regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation …, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, R&D intensity, and product innovation …

This paper analyzes the impact of technological diversity on innovation inputs and success using Swiss firm-level panel … applications as suggested by the literature. However, since patent applications reflect an intermediate innovation input rather …

This paper investigates the relationship between technology specialization and innovation performance of firms … innovative products. Following the "technology trajectory (path)" increases the probability of an above average innovation … detect a significant positive relationship between the combined effect (transfer and specialization) and the innovation …

to energy efficient technology (EET), I attempt to identify firm-level determinants of innovation and research in this … sizeable differences of the explaining factors of energy efficiency related innovation as compared to overall innovation. In … for EET related innovation, raising the question whether such innovation sufficiently responds to current and potential …

'relevant' firms. Our empirical results indeed show that the measure performs better than the standard measure in an innovation … and significant impact on innovation success. However, the knowledge spillovers appear to be localized: Spillovers from … particularly Switzerland itself. Moreover, the spillover effect on innovation performance decreases with increasing number of …