distinguish clearly between adoption and use of energy-related technologies (process innovation in the broad sense) and product … innovation in energy-related fields. We take into consideration four energy-related policy instruments (and expected demand for … adoption or innovation by interacting adoption and innovation variables with policy instrument dummies. We test our hypotheses …

'relevant' firms. Our empirical results indeed show that the measure performs better than the standard measure in an innovation … and significant impact on innovation success. However, the knowledge spillovers appear to be localized: Spillovers from … particularly Switzerland itself. Moreover, the spillover effect on innovation performance decreases with increasing number of …

Switzerland is one of the most competitive countries in the world. Commercially successful innovation activities are an … essential part of this achievement. However, for two decades, Swiss innovation surveys have shown a significant decline in the … number of R&D active companies among all companies and of the proportion of companies reporting an innovation (product or …