various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …

Growing cultural diversity is seen as important for innovation. Research has focused on two potential mechanisms: a … innovation, nor do migrant-run firms in diverse cities appear particularly innovative. But urban context does matter and firms in …

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

); reduce investment drastically (by 19); and reduce very substantially process innovation and information technology investment …

This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany …

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …

We explain a counterintuitive empirical finding: Firms facing more import competition do more innovation. In our model … growth. With trapped factors, firms that face more import competition do relatively more innovation. The extra innovation …