This paper investigates the relationship between innovation activities and market structure in German chemical industry. We present a formal model that suggests the existence of a self-enforcing dynamic feedback between market concentration and innovation. This model is tested on the basis of...

Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation activities fell sharply. Innovation expenditures hence concentrate on fewer firms. In this...

Das Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) erhebt seit 1993 im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) und in Kooperation mit dem Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung (ISI) und dem Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaften (infas)...

[Introduction] Innovation expenditures in Germany have increased at an impressive rate in the course of the last two decades. Between 1995 and 2013, businesses in Germany raised their spending for developing and introducing new products and new processes from €60.8bn to €144.6bn resulting in...

In this paper we analyze the conditions under which firms decide to offshore innovation. We consider the role of internal technological capabilities and technological dynamism in the firm environment, distinguishing speed and uncertainty of technological change. Using unique data from the German...

Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially in the high-tech industries), and this...

Nonparametric efficiency analysis has become a widely applied technique to support industrial benchmarking as well as a variety of incentive-based regulation policies. In practice such exercises are often plagued by incomplete knowledge about the correct specifications of inputs and outputs....