This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

The positive impact of socio-cultural diversity on innovation and economic prosperity has been widely discussed. Yet … findings indicate a disparity between East and West Germany, reflecting the path-dependent nature of historical events. This …

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 …

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European … effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. By looking at country and sector level … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …

Innovation is a key driver of technological progress and growth in a knowledge-based economy. There are various motives … the firm's own products when the technology adopted is based on ideas from other industries. Firms can perform innovation … combine it with administrative data from Germany's social security system. An ordered logit model is estimated using a variety …

studying whether the relative regional importance of Mittelstand firms has an effect on regional innovation performance. Using …

This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy … managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold consequences for the innovation behaviour of plants, among others … persistently lower wages and higher unemployment rates in eastern compared with western Germany. …