We analyze the development of the German knowledge base measured by co-classifications of patents by German inventors … hypothesis states that technologies which become more central to the knowledge base are also characterized by a higher …. -- Knowledge relatedness ; Innovator networks ; Interdisciplinary research ; Patents ; Key Technology …

Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total … innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation activities fell sharply. Innovation … expenditures hence concentrate on fewer firms. In this paper we analyse the evolution of firms' innovation and R&D activities …

Do firms sourcing out IT services redirect their resources to innovation activity? We attempt to answer this question … ITO and product innovation activity of manufacturing firms, and a significant and hump-shaped relationship between ITO and … process innovation activity of services firms. A propensity score matching analysis takes account of reverse causality; the …

Among available policy levers to boost innovation, investment in applied research organisations has received little … system and merge it with the German contribution to the Community Innovation Survey (CIS), which contains panel information …

study the role that firms' and users' activities on Facebook play in the innovation process. We find that firms' adoption of … actively ask for feedback, while only negative user comments are positively and significantly related to innovation success …