are induced by regulations. However, innovation that increases a firm's material or energy efficiency in terms of material … voluntary innovations, although the effect is significantly larger for regulation-driven innovation. We conclude that the Porter … hypothesis does not hold in general for its strong version but has to be qualified by the type of environmental innovation. Our …

Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical … evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking … into account the type of competition in the downstream market, namely price and technology. We explore this relationship …

Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The main purpose of the paper is to test whether different types of eco … the role of energy and raw materials prices as well as taxation as drivers for eco-innovation. Customer requirements are …

Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm's innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known … environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … former evidence that persistency in innovation is driven by true state dependence. More importantly, we find that the local …

firm's products. Our econometric analysis uses data of two waves of the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS …

The paper analyzes how geographical clustering of beneficiaries might affect the effectiveness of public innovation … support programs. The geographical proximity of firms operating in the same industry or field of technology is expected to … facilitate innovation through knowledge spillovers and other localization advantages. Public innovation support programs may …

and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

This paper studies the effects of different public innovation funding programs on the innovation output and export … contributes to higher innovation outputs, which in turn translates into higher export success in later years. This relation … however only holds for certain sources of public funding and certain types of innovation output. Innovation support from the …

economic prospects, firms had to cut costs and reconsider their business strategies. With respect to innovation, cost cutting … often means to stop or underresource innovation projects which may harm a firm's long-term competitiveness. Firms may … therefore refrain from reducing innovation budgets during crises but rather deliberately allocate more resources to innovation …