failures. Furthermore, we present preliminary results on employment, revenue and labor productivity growth in East German firms … revenue growth, resulting in an apparently impressive gain in labor productivity. Small firms turn out to be the carriers of … employment growth yields labor productivity increases well below those of larger firms. …

Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known … about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different …&D knowledge located in the US. The positive influence on total factor productivity is larger if the research of the inventors …

-how. -- technology sourcing ; knowledge spillovers ; productivity ; open innovation …Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known … about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different …

We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …