The contribution of New Technology-based Firms (NTBFs) to long term economic development is at the centre of a …

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a …This paper deals with flows of technology and information among people and institutions and the role of public support … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national …

The paper develops an oligopoly model of innovation and applies it to data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. The … complexity, etc. are important determinants of overall innovation expenditures, but not for R&D specifically. If legal protection … affect the innovation activity of the firm. Specification tests derived from the theoretical model do not lead to a rejection …

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. …

overcome market failure by establishing a specific eco-innovation policy and to avoid a "technology bias" by a broader …Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the … need can be identified to improve our understanding of innovation processes toward sustainability in their different …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

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

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. …