investigate howfirm-specific and sector-specific driving forces differ by innovation type. Moreover, weoutline the functions that … different innovation types have for environmental and innovationpolicies. We find that eco-innovators put relatively more …

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

sustain the innovation process that is at the basis of our prosperity. In this paper we deal with the age distributions of … among inventors. Additionally, we advance the new hypothesis that any age-bias in innovation activity should show up as … is industry specific. We test this hypothesis with European patent data for Germany. …

The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … do so, we construct a firm-level panel data set for the years 1992-2009 combining patent data from the European Patent …

clean coal patenting and overall propensity to patent positively a.ects clean coal innovation. On the demand-side we find …This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to a.ect innovation in clean coal … technologies. Patent data from 93 national and international patent offices is used to construct new firm-level panel data on 3 …