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 …

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 …

consensus on whether this new privacy regulation is beneficial or detrimental to innovation. This study provides empirical … evidence on the impact of the GDPR on innovation activities in firms. Exploiting panel data from the German innovation survey …, a difference-in-difference analysis shows that the GDPR stimulated additional innovation activity while shifting the …

Innovation is crucial to economic development. Innovation expenditures in Germany's business sector as well as public … explained by certain barriers to innovation. Increasingly important hampering factors are the lack of qualified employees and … the burden of regulation and bureaucracy. Policy measures to support Germany's innovation capacity should tackle the …

The paper analyzes how geographical clustering of beneficiaries might affect the effectiveness of public innovation … facilitate innovation through knowledge spillovers and other localization advantages. Public innovation support programs may …

This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small … innovation management tools in order to achieve innovation success. We analyse whether such a strategy can pay off. Based on data … from the German CIS we find that R&D activities are a main driver for innovation success if combined with external R …

Innovation Survey and a conditional difference-in-differences methodology, we find a positive effect of industry …-science collaboration on product innovation success only for joint R&D, but not for the other three channels. The positive effect is limited … into forms of collaboration that are effective in producing higher innovation output. …

The paper analyzes how geographical clustering of beneficiaries might affect the effectiveness of public innovation … facilitate innovation through knowledge spillovers and other localization advantages. Public innovation support programs may …

In October 2013, the European Commission presented a new indicator intended to capture innovation outputs and outcomes … usefulness of the new indicator against the background of the difficulties in measuring innovation outputs and outcomes. We … develop a unique conceptual framework for measuring innovation outcomes that distinguishes structural change and structural …

In October 2013, the European Commission presented a new indicator intended to capture innovation outputs and outcomes … usefulness of the new indicator against the background of the difficulties in measuring innovation outputs and outcomes. We … develop a unique conceptual framework for measuring innovation outcomes that distinguishes structural change and structural …