during the crisis in 2008 and 2009, ICT-intensive firms were hit less hard with respect to their productivity. This holds in … innovations during that period which could explain their better productivity performance compared to non-ICT intensive firms. …

heterogeneous across countries: Innovation leaders and followers behave countercyclically during recessions while moderate …&D reacts asymmetrically over different phases of the business cycle and becomes acyclical during recessions. It is also … countries behind the innovation frontier might strengthen their resilience to economic crises by adopting countercyclical R …

market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …

of R&D grants and R&D tax credits on R&D inputs and innovation outputs. We estimate Conditional Difference …

innovation capacities, while start-ups applying for tenders without functional criteria, profit from larger foundation teams …

consensus on whether this new privacy regulation is beneficial or detrimental to innovation. This study provides empirical … evidence on the impact of the GDPR on innovation activities in firms. Exploiting panel data from the German innovation survey …, a difference-in-difference analysis shows that the GDPR stimulated additional innovation activity while shifting 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 …