The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to...

The global economic crisis of 2008/2009 hit many firms hard. Faced with rapidly declining sales and highly uncertain economic prospects, firms had to cut costs and reconsider their business strategies. With respect to innovation, cost cutting often means to stop or underresource innovation...

Increasing investment in innovation has been a major goal of research and innovation policy in Europe over the past decade. Yet to secure competitive advantage and achieve growth, R&D investment has to be translated into successful innovations, and this is first and foremost the task of firms....

Eine leistungsfähige Telekommunikationsinfrastruktur und innovative Anbieter von Telekommunikationsdiensten sind ein wesentliches Fundament für moderne Industriegesellschaften. Moderne Telekommunikation ermöglicht den raschen, sicheren, kostengünstigen und flexiblen Austausch von...