In 2020, firms expected their innovation expenditures to decrease by about 2% in 2020 compared to 2019. This decline is … much smaller than that in 2009 following the financial crisis, when innovation expenditures fell by 11%. However, smaller … firms with 5 to 99 employees planned to cut their innovation expenditures by 7% to 17 % in 2020. For 2021, firms planned a …

the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms … with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do EREI firms follow distinct innovation strategies? Do EREIs spur … or limit innovation success? And what are the particular features of EREI firms compared to conventional innovators …

The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory …-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this …

innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate … the complementary role of the two protection methods. We identify protection strategies for single innovation firms and … for the same innovation or for different innovations. Employing firm panel data from Germany, we find fairly few …

nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to technological innovation, and their effects to firm performance and success …Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms' innovation activities that both supplement and … complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of …

paper looks at the economic and social dimensions by investigating the performance and employment effects of CE innovations … firm's products. Our econometric analysis uses data of two waves of the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS …). The performance effects of CE innovations measured by the financial standing of a firm and by turnover growth tend to be …