to transfer science into commercial innovations, knowledge transfer from academia to industry has been a central issue in …

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M … capacity for the post-merger patent productivity of the acquired inventors. Based on a sample of 544 inventors employed by … European acquisition targets in the period 2000-2001 it is shown that the post-merger productivity of acquired inventors is …

on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of … innovating firms introduced innovations between 1993 and 1995 that would not have been developed without public research. These … ability to absorb the findings of public research and turn them into innovations. Contrary to the widely held opinion that …

level of R&D. We analyze whether different R&D activities show a positive influence on total factor productivity (TFP) for …

product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in … than firms that only sell in the domestic market, and, subsequently, have higher rates of productivity growth. The …' productivity growth and incentive to invest in R&D. …

innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. -- Firm behavior ; technical change …The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational …