The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision … panel of standards, we then confirm empirically the prediction that consortia have different effects on innovation under a … Public Good or Rent Seeking regime. Overall, we observe an increase in innovation after a firm joined a consortium. However …

subject of this study is an econometric analysis of the effects of innovation on firm performance. The main data source for … this analysis is the Ifo Innovation Survey, which has provided yearly, firm-level data on innovation since 1982. Following … two introductory chapters on innovation, the data set is introduced and explained in detail. Subsequent chapters analyze …