Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and...

The theoretical and empirical innovation literature stresses the importance of regional fac-tors and locational conditions for location choice of firms and their innovation success. Innovation activities are not equally distributed in space because agglomeration effects and specific regional...

The employment effects of environmental technologies are in the focus of politicians but there are only few studies analyzing these effects for different environmental innovation fields. We use the 2009 wave of the German part of the Community Innovation Panel (CIS) allowing for such an analysis...

Die Studie untersucht die Beschäftigungseffekte von umweltbezogenen Produktinnovationen auf Unternehmensebene. Die empirische Analyse basiert auf dem Betriebspanel des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (Nürnberg). Eine deskriptive Analyse zeigt, dass mehr als 50 Prozent der...