within the Digital Layer. The firm-level innovation indicators in this study come from traditional sources (survey and patent …

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 …

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 …

in curbing viral transmission. Such a strategy integrates corporate innovation, government decision-making, citizen … participation, and community coordination with big data analytics. This article explores how key stakeholders in an open innovation …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to … new business models. This paper analyses the extent to which the use of AI contributes to the innovation performance of … firms. Based on firm-level data from the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2018, we examine the …