This paper analyses the role of creative industries in affecting an economy’s innovation performance. We conducted a … innovative sectors in the economy. They support innovation in a variety of other sectors through creative inputs, such as ideas … for new products (i.e. innovation content), supplementary products and services (such as software) or marketing support …

innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate … the complementary role of the two protection methods. We identify protection strategies for single innovation firms and … for the same innovation or for different innovations. Employing firm panel data from Germany, we find fairly few …

This paper studies the effects of different public innovation funding programs on the innovation output and export … contributes to higher innovation outputs, which in turn translates into higher export success in later years. This relation … however only holds for certain sources of public funding and certain types of innovation output. Innovation support from the …

Our study shows empirically that the choice of resource allocation strategy affects innovation performance. A policy of … allocating resources to a broader range of innovation projects increases sales of new products, especially if these are truly … stronger for firms that allocate resources more selectively at later stages of the innovation process. Based on these results …

The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …

and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

The paper analyzes how geographical clustering of beneficiaries might affect the effectiveness of public innovation … facilitate innovation through knowledge spillovers and other localization advantages. Public innovation support programs may …

Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total … innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation activities fell sharply. Innovation … expenditures hence concentrate on fewer firms. In this paper we analyse the evolution of firms' innovation and R&D activities …

In October 2013, the European Commission presented a new indicator intended to capture innovation outputs and outcomes … usefulness of the new indicator against the background of the difficulties in measuring innovation outputs and outcomes. We … develop a unique conceptual framework for measuring innovation outcomes that distinguishes structural change and structural …