1997-2003), using stochastic frontier estimation. We find that the effects of both knowledge inputs become significant … policies encouraging innovation implemented from 1991 onwards paid off in the second half of the 1990s, with innovation driving … firm sales. In traditional industries, the effect of innovation can be interpreted as an effort to catch up with the global …

refers to the early phase of DSL expansion in Germany from 2001 to 2003, when roughly 60 percent of the German firms already … used broadband Internet. Identification relies on instrumental variable estimation taking advantage of information on the … productivity whereas it exhibits a positive and significant impact on their innovation activity. -- Labour productivity …

Purpose – Examining the strategic contingency of plant improvement capability and innovation capability. Two forms of … improvement capability and innovation capability are associated with different competitive priorities and also have varying impact …

independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of …

innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … information flows and cooperation patterns within the innovation system of Germany. In the summary at the end of this paper we …In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For …