In October 2013, the European Commission presented a new indicator intended to capture innovation outputs and outcomes and thereby "support policy-makers in establishing new or reinforced actions to remove bottlenecks that prevent innovators from translating ideas into products and services that...

In October 2013, the European Commission presented a new indicator intended to capture innovation outputs and outcomes and thereby "support policy-makers in establishing new or reinforced actions to remove bottlenecks that prevent innovators from translating ideas into products and services that...

We contribute to the existing research about policy-induced technology adoption in several ways. First, we suggest a new survey design to measure the energy-related policy environment. Second, we simultaneously estimate the policy effects for the adoption propensity and the adoption intensity...

This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate the complementary role of the two protection...

This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international competitiveness. We use firm-level data from three countries with similar industry...

This paper studies the effects of different public innovation funding programs on the innovation output and export performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We evaluate the effectiveness of regional, national and European funding programs implemented in Germany for both product...

Dieser Bericht präsentiert Ergebnisse zu zwei Schwerpunktfragen der Innovationserhebung 2014 im Rahmen des Mannheimer Innovationspanels (MIP). Eine Schwerpunktfrage widmete sich Innovationen im Zusammenhang mit der Energiewende und erfasste dabei innovative Maßnahmen im Bereich...

In der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise von 2008/2009 standen viele Unternehmen vor der Frage, ob sie angesichts rückläufiger Umsätze und einer verschlechterten Ertragssituation auch ihre Ausgaben für Forschung und Innovation nach unten anpassen sollten. Eine Kürzung von Innovationsausgaben...