The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …

(Community Innovation Surveys) wird gezeigt, dass die deutsche Industrie eine überdurchschnittlich starke Innovationsorientierung …This article investigates to what extent innovation has contributed to the development of employment growth and … exporting in German manufacturing since the beginning of 2000. Using firm-level data from the Community Innovation Surveys in …

The EU's stagnation on many innovation indicators led to a number of efforts to spur a turnaround. One of most visible … innovation. But does this strategy address the right issues to promote innovation? Is Horizon 2020 right to ignore geographical … Horizon 2020 actually having on innovation in the EU? …

This paper analyzes the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect innovation. While … innovation firms and hence overcome the assignment problem of existing empirical studies, that is, whether firms using both … protection methods do so for the same innovation or for different innovations. Employing firm panel data from Germany, we find …