This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation … performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …

reduced their dependence on foreign knowledge. Finally, Chinese and foreign patenting have become more similar in …

reduced their dependence on foreign knowledge. Finally, Chinese and foreign patenting have become more similar in …

environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … bands show that the strength of knowledge spillovers that contribute to innovation persistence via true state dependence …Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known …

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth in the period 2006-2008 using firm … employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. As a robustness check patent … the average innovation engagement and innovation success of both types of new products. In contrast, environmental and non …

Recent years have shown a surge of firms globalising their innovation activities in order to gain from international … knowledge. This paper evaluates this strategy by investigating whether firms with international R&D are more innovative than … stronger dispersed international R&D activities hamper or stimulate innovation. Second, we employ two well-established market …