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 … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …

the relation between the introduction of innovation and subsequent firm growth in terms of sales. Recent contributions … examining the returns to innovation on firm performance have stressed the need of going beyond the analysis of the "average … adopt quantile treatment effects (QTE) which allow to estimate the effect of the introduction of innovation by comparing …

territorial analysis and planning focused on innovation and knowledge transfer and in its governance mechanisms. A new methodology …'Innovation is the ability to take new ideas and translate them into commercial outcomes by using new processes …, products or services in a way that is better and faster than the competition' (Nedis & Byler, 2009). Innovation is considered …

use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …

regional specific efficiencies of knowledge spillovers. Although quantifying the impact of entrepreneurial activity for … entrepreneurial activity in innovation and regional growth within a spatial semi-endogenous growth model in the spirit of Jones (1995 …: firstly, the degree of tacit knowledge spillover within the R\&D-sector is positively related to own and neigbhour …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

of R&D. Our work analyzes knowledge diffusion and knowledge externalities in generating innovation and in determining … productivity of R&D resources in generating innovation (patenting) and productivity (TFP). While we find that knowledge diffusion …The diffusion of knowledge in the world generates positive externalities if knowledge flows increase the productivity …

- 2010) matched with information on sector innovation derived from the Community Innovation Survey, we look at the impact of … innovation across small and medium-large firms, both on the average wages paid by firms and on the degree of within-firm wage …