innovation also when referring to intra-country differences. …

This paper provides an integrated analysis of multinational companies’ global production and innovation. We establish … novel stylized facts using rich data on the network of production affiliates and patent activity of German multinationals … of production, basic innovation and applied innovation, under asymmetric complementarities across these three activities …

technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which …This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German …

and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … technologies. This study relies on patent data to examine international innovative activity in concentrating solar power … solar thermal technologies to the International Patent Classification (IPC) system. To this end we suggest a narrowly …

group of relevant innovators. -- Innovation ; patent data ; solar technologies ; climate change …. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … technologies. This study relies on patent data to examine international innovative activity in concentrating solar power …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative … medium sized enterprises has an effect on regional innovative capacity. We therefore combine patent data with data from the …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative … medium sized enterprises has an effect on regional innovative capacity. We therefore combine patent data with data from the …

The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …