establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm’s total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when … we consider only generalized training and innovation. Finally, no significant relation is found between training …

literature. We discuss if lock-ins are really inescapable, especially when innovation is concerned. Also, we address the question …

analysis with evidence on innovation slowdown trends, looking at aggregate and compositional trends. We explore the innovation … occurrence. Eventually, we relate productivity and innovation slowdowns deriving tables of trends co-movements, weighted by input …