This paper investigates how the macroeconomic business cycle impacts the empirical relation between firms' innovations and their sales growth rates. Based on firm-level panel data over the time period 1995-2014, the paper finds no visible sales growth differentials between firms in booming...

One of the main goals of the "Energy Strategy 2050" in Switzerland is the exploitation of the existing energy efficiency potentials. The size of the efficiency potential strongly depends on the development and the adoption of energy-related innovations. The objective of this project is to...

Unternehmen in der Schweiz gehören nach wie vor zu den Innovationsstärksten der Welt. Allerdings hat die Innovationstätigkeit - zumindest bei einigen Indikatoren - seit der Periode 2000 - 02 nachgelassen. Dies zeigen die Ergebnisse der 10. Innovationserhebung zur Schweizer Wirtschaft für die...