Public procurement has been at the centre of recent discussions on innovation policy on both European and national … levels (e.g., Aho-Report, Barcelona Strategy). It has a large potential to stimulate innovation since it accounts for 16% of … combined EU-15 GDP. We embed public procurement for innovation into the broader framework of public policies to stimulate …

(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …

-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 …

results confirm a complementary relationship: using both transfer channels contributes to higher innovation performance. The …

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company …

analyzing these effects for different environmental innovation fields. We use the 2009 wave of the German part of the Community … Innovation Panel (CIS) allowing for such an analysis at the firm level. The main focus of the paper lies on the analysis of the … adaptation behavior of firms with respect to the relationship of employment and (environmental) innovation. We use an endogenous …

In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …