-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generate similar innovation success compared to …

influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge management cycles, we … management techniques and their influence on product and process innovation. The ability to source external knowledge positively … the tools of knowledge management in function of the kind of technical innovation it wants to proceed. -- Knowledge …

; innovation ; environmental innovation ; organizational change ; productivity …

unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from … the dual apprenticeship system-increase or not. In addition, estimation and data problems are addressed in a topical and … rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

refers to the early phase of DSL expansion in Germany from 2001 to 2003, when roughly 60 percent of the German firms already … used broadband Internet. Identification relies on instrumental variable estimation taking advantage of information on the … productivity whereas it exhibits a positive and significant impact on their innovation activity. -- Labour productivity …

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the idea of an … alternatives of use. If they choose additional innovation projects they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing, but also to firms' innovative capability. Econometric …

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of … alternatives of use. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … that were not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking …

CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals’ area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …

on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of … of received knowledge spillovers, we found no higher probability of publicly supported innovations for firms in Germany …