importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …

This paper deals with the innovation behavior and the R&D activities at the firm level in East Germany. The theoretical … innovation and R&D lack at the firm level. …

Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation … transformation than non-HCs firms. To test this hypothesis, I use data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. This allows me to identify …

We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …

product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …

Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … sectoral pattern of innovation and the distance of a country's industry to the global technological frontier. We explore these … dimensions based on longitudinal industry-level data from the Community Innovation Survey. We find that the demand on markets for …

Process innovation is an important part of firms’ innovation activities and supposed to significantly contribute to … positive returns from innovation. Measuring process innovation output at the firm level is still in its infancy, however. This … paper reports empirical evidence on measures of process innovation output that have been collected in the German part of the …

We study the blocking effect of patents on follow-on innovation by others. We posit that follow-on innovation requires … freedom to operate (FTO), which firms typically obtain through a license from the patentee holding the original innovation …. Where licensing fails, follow-on innovation is blocked unless firms gain FTO through patent invalidation. Using large …

Public procurement accounts for 15 to 20 percent of global GDP and is considered an effective innovation policy …