innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual … impact of counterfeiting on the performance of companies has not been tested empirically, due to methodological problems … counterfeiting could have in part a beneficial effect on the performance of companies, due to indirect advertising, calling for …

such innovations affect performance. To analyse the relationship between green innovation and performance, new industry … results show that green inventions are U-shape related to performance. However, the turning point is quite high and hence only …

on the economic performance of firms. My analysis is conducted on a panel of 8,619 patenting firms including 968 green … energy patenters from 22 European countries over the period 2003 to 2010. I measure economic firm performance in terms of … innovation has a statistically significant negative impact on economic firm performance. In contrast, nongreen energy innovation …

words, the larger the knowledge pool of an inventor entering (leaving) the firm, the more the firm’s innovation performance … pharmaceuticals and mechanical engineering such that the mobility of an inventor to a firm increases its innovation performance but … the mobility of an inventor from a firm does not affect its innovation performance. We further find that particularly …