The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

The role of universities in the system of innovation changed dramatically in the last fifty years. This observation is … in the GDR but did not guarantee the success of the system of innovation. This study examines the process of discipline … innovation. Employing the method of collective biography this study demonstrates that the scientific elites in east and west …

The paper deals with the discussion about policy measures for stimulating regional innovation activity that had been … initiated by the concept of an innovation-oriented regional policy as outlined by Hans-Jürgen Ewers and his co-authors. Many … peripheral areas are at a general disadvantage with regards to innovation activity could not be proven. The current political …

Growth in advanced economies is essentially driven by innovation activities. From a demographic point of view the … question rises, whether the trend of an ageing workforce will affect the innovation capacities of these economies. To answer … model, relating a firm's innovation potential to the age composition of its employees. The analysis provides evidence of …

The paper develops an oligopoly model of innovation and applies it to data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. The … complexity, etc. are important determinants of overall innovation expenditures, but not for R&D specifically. If legal protection … affect the innovation activity of the firm. Specification tests derived from the theoretical model do not lead to a rejection …