This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation …

Until today, the question of how digitalisation and, in particular, individual digital technologies affect productivity … analytics (BDA) on labour productivity (LP) at the firm level. We find that a simple binary measure indicating the mere usage of …

new ways of production that may increase productivity. So far, however, only very few studies investigated likely … productivity effects of AI at the firm-level; presumably because of lacking data. We exploit unique survey data on firms' adoption … of AI technology and estimate its productivity effects with a sample of German firms. We employ both a cross …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to … new business models. This paper analyses the extent to which the use of AI contributes to the innovation performance of … firms. Based on firm-level data from the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2018, we examine the …

Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To …? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature survey of research on public procurement of innovation (PPI …: i) Does PPI spur innovation? ii) How should PPI be designed to best spur innovation? iii) What are the main barriers to …