[Innovation in Chemistry & the Chemical Industry in Germany] The chemical industry is one of the key sectors in the … German innovation system. Being devoted to research and innovation, the chemical industry is leading the development and … industries build their innovative efforts. The innovation performance of the chemical industry in Germany can be demonstrated by …

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …

The sensitivity of innovation activities with respect to the business cycle is often assumed to be small. In this paper … the hypothesis on cyclical dependence of innovation activities is tested for firms in the German manufacturing, and … additionally for SMEs. To this end firms? innovation decisions are considered. The decision to innovate in one period is modelled …

innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …