literature on diversity argues that heterogeneity can have a positive as well as a detrimental effect on team outputs. Our paper …). We find that a rise in the average age of a company's workforce has a negative impact on innovation, but age diversity …

Diversität, Teams, Alter, Innovation … formation of innovation teams will become a central task for many companies. Based on two laboratory studies, this thesis …

, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by conducting an Exploratory Space-Time Data Analysis (ESTDA). Beside … variables. Overall, we find strong clustering tendencies for the demographic variables and innovation that constitute a great … among regions that may further reinforce the observed innovation divide in the future. …

harmful to the probability of process innovation based on IT. Leaving the negative relationship between older workers and the …. Thus, not older workers in general are harmful to firms' innovation capabilities, but older workers who lack the …

and wages, on innovation as well as on mobility is explored empirically. The econometric analyses are based on firm and … aged around 40 years seem to act as key driver for innovation activities within firms. An additional finding concerns the … impact of age diversity on innovation. The expected positive effect of a heterogeneous age structure is not confirmed by the …