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 …

Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical … evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking …

Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical … evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking … suppliers’ R&D intensity if the powerful buyer operates under strong technology competition. -- Innovation ; Buyer Power …

. In the years from 2002 to 2004, approximately 6,600 firms in Germany introduced EREIs. Analysing German innovation data …, we find statistically significant differences in the innovation activities between firms with EREIs and other innovators … main incentive for investing in higher resource efficiency are cost savings. Moreover, firms with EREIs perceive innovation …

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 …