This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product...

European countries are currently faced with a variety of challenges, ranging from the new global distribution of economic activity, the diffusion of new, radical technologies to the aging of its population, youth unemployment and the aftermath of the economic and financial crisis. These...

Europe’s innovation potential is currently dominated by well-established large companies. In most member countries the bulk of R&D expenditures is spend by large companies. Following OECD data, SME’s share in total R&D spending amount to 8% in Germany or Japan, around 15% in US, France,...

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firmlevel data for 16 European countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product...

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth in the period 2006-2008 using firm-level data for German manufacturing and services. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment effects of environmental and...

[Zusammenfassung] Dieser Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse einer Evaluierung der nationalen Förderung im Programm Eurostars 1 zusammen. Das Programm Eurostars 1 lief von 2008 bis 2013 als ein gemeinsames Programm der Initiative EUREKA und der Europäischen Kommission. Ziel des Programms war es,...

Vielfach können sich forschende Unternehmen nicht sämtliche Erträge aus ihrer eigenen FuE-Tätigkeit aneignen, sondern von den Ergebnissen ihrer Innovationstätigkeit profitieren auch andere Unternehmen. Da Wissen den Charakter eines öffentlichen Gutes hat, können sich Dritte das Wissen...