Innovation is widely considered as the main determinant of long-term economic growth. Despite this consensus, it is … critical examination of innovation indicators and measures of the economic impact of innovation. All available innovation … indicators fall short of measuring innovation and its economic effect. However, the future could be more promising as enterprises …

this coming ban adjusted their research activity in response? The analysis of the IW patent database presented here allows … a detailed look at the research activities of the automotive industry in Germany based on patent applications in the … three largest automotive suppliers have also clearly changed their strategy. In 2010, patent applications related to the …

This paper investigates the determinants of EPO (European Patent Office) patent applications per capita using a panel … of 22 OECD countries with data measured as five-year averages for the period 1980-1999. The patent production function is … per capita. Business enterprise R&D (BERD) expenditures are more effective in generating patent applications than public …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …' successful patent applications. The last chapter describes sector-level input-output relationships in eleven European economies …

Women continue to make only a small, and recently actually diminishing, contribution to patent activity in Germany. In … 2016, female inventors accounted for just 4.4 per cent of all national patent applications filed with the German Patent and … Germany has become a little more female over the past decade. Women accounted for 8.4 per cent of patent applications from …

products and services. Using the example of innovation in firms, we outline a framework for extracting information from firm …

emphasizes a positive correlation between firm-level innovation and productivity gains. It is unsurprising, then, that policy … makers and researchers widely acknowledge that innovation is one of the major drivers of productivity growth, and is … extensively as a proxy for innovation in the literature. Here, we use a production function approach to estimate the return to R …

Innovation is considered as a main driver of economic growth. Promoting the development of innovation through STI … (science, technology and innovation) policies requires accurate indicators of innovation. Traditional indicators often lack …. In this paper, we propose a novel approach on how to create firm-level innovation indicators at the scale of millions of …