innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across … regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation …, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, R&D intensity, and product innovation …

industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the share … an increasing lag between energy prices and innovation activities. Robustness tests confirm the main results. …

such innovations affect performance. To analyse the relationship between green innovation and performance, new industry … not sufficient to allow the green invention activities of industries to rise considerably. -- innovation ; R&D ; patents …

Research about users as a source of innovation has been largely restricted to case studies exploring specific … innovation projects at the firm level. This study assesses empirically the relationship between external end users' knowledge as … an input factor to innovation and firms' innovation success. The results strongly support the hypotheses: (i) that …

universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …-oriented firms. We further found a positive effect on innovation performance for exploration-oriented firms but not for those that …

We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …