Knowledge about non-R&D expenditure on innovation activities such as patenting and licensing, design, trial production, tooling- up, manpower training, market research and investment in fixed assets, is still extremely sparse. Questions about the latter were very poorly answered in the recent...

Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of inno¬va¬tive new products (“first on the marketâ€). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider†la¬bor...

Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of inno¬va¬tive new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” la¬bor markets enhances...

In den letzten 15 Jahren zeigt die deutsche Wirtschaftspolitik auffallende Ähnlichkeiten mit der Politik der Niederlande 20 Jahre zuvor: Die Gewerkschaften stellen bescheidene Lohnforderungen, und die Zahl der atypischen Stellen wächst schnell. Diese Politik hat einen Preis: geringere...