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 …

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 …

innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … knowledge into innovations that bring economic success. …

innovations. Economic theory does not propose clear answers to this question. In the empirical analysis, it turns out that the …

' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …

, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign …