Innovation research has developed a broad set of methodological approaches in recent decades. In this paper, we propose laboratory experiments as a fruitful methodological addition to the existing methods in innovation research. Therefore, we provide an overview of the existing methods, discuss...

The effects of public subsidies in supporting innovative activity is subject to long-standing debates. Since empirical findings remain largely inconclusive, this study adds to this debate with counterfactual evidence from a laboratory experiment. In a creative real effort task simulating the...

Das Handwerk stellt einen wichtigen Bestandteil der Hamburger Wirtschaft dar. Um die Stärken und Schwächen einerseits und Chancen und Potenziale andererseits für die zukünftige Entwicklung des Handwerks in der Hansestadt zu erkennen und daraus konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für Betriebe,...

In this paper we contribute to the discussion on whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by means of a laboratory experiment. We introduce a novel Scrabble-like creativity task that captures most essentialities of a sequential innovation process. We use this task to...