The paper analyses the theoretical and empirical relationship between employment, skill structure and innovation in … East and West German manufacturing firms. The econometric part builds on firm data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel 1993 …

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. …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding?out effects between public and private means occur. A non … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …

This study analyzes the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern … innovation activities by about four percentage points. …

of the hypotheses raised in this literature. It employs the data of the first wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel …&D we also used the concept of total innovation expenditures to capture the importance of non R& D innovation activities … which are especially important for small firms. (3) We give reliable estimates on the occurrence of R&D and innovation …