This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … do so, we construct a firm-level panel data set for the years 1992-2009 combining patent data from the European Patent …

between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …

true. Using a panel of German firms linked to the PATSTAT patent data, we study invention in both types of energy …

employment for different types of labour in manufacturing. The empirical model allows for endogeneity of the firm's innovation … market products is more important than any other measure of product innovation in determining the expected employment …

capital are found to be mixed. While R&D has a strong positive impact on productivity, design & licences and patents show only …

Innovation is commercialization of technology. Imperfections in markets for technology should leave marks on physical …-up threats. Backward references in firm's patent portfolio indicate potential technology suppliers. I find a negative effect of … ownership fragmentation on investments related to innovation for firms with small patent portfolios. Hold-up threats are …

China recently surpassed the USA as the greatest global source of patent applications. However, without internationally … comparable measures of patent quality it remains questionable whether China's patent expansion constitutes the rise of a new … internationally comparable, quality-adjusted figures for applications made under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). We show that …

to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has … (covering manufacturing and service industries) and 13 years (1995-2007), the analysis shows that skill-biased technology …