Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known … environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … former evidence that persistency in innovation is driven by true state dependence. More importantly, we find that the local …

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 …

capital are found to be mixed. While R&D has a strong positive impact on productivity, design & licences and patents show only …