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 … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from … rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation …This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent …

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To … number of different ways, and optimize their innovation process. The success of a firm's innovation strategy has two … product innovation. Second, the ability to turn the market introduction of a product innovation into commercial success. While …

this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and …This paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … of innovation outputs in all three countries. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to …

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … applied to a newly constructed panel for Germany. Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation techniques for dynamic panel … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

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 …