intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …

This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at the firm level. We introduce three new … features: (i) A structural model that explains productivity by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment … of firms engage in research activities and/or apply for patents; productivity, innovation and research are endogenously …