This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product...

Um die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ihrer Volkswirtschaften zu stärken, investieren viele Länder jährlich große Summen in Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten. Begründet werden staatliche Förderungen von FuE-und Innovationsaktivitäten (F&I) in der Wirtschaft und direkte staatliche...

Vielfach können sich forschende Unternehmen nicht sämtliche Erträge aus ihrer eigenen FuE-Tätigkeit aneignen, sondern von den Ergebnissen ihrer Innovationstätigkeit profitieren auch andere Unternehmen. Da Wissen den Charakter eines öffentlichen Gutes hat, können sich Dritte das Wissen...

European countries are currently faced with a variety of challenges, ranging from the new global distribution of economic activity, the diffusion of new, radical technologies to the aging of its population, youth unemployment and the aftermath of the economic and financial crisis. These...

The exchange of knowledge between science and industry has been a focus of innovation research and policy for many decades. New developments in the way technologies are generated, shared, and transferred into new products, services, and business models are currently re-emphasising...

The paper investigates the reaction of public R&D spending on economic crises. We are interested in two counteracting motives: On the one hand, public R&D spending can be seen as a means to fight the crisis, and governments may decide to increase their R&D budgets. On the other hand, a crisis...