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 …

assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing … productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital, branding capital and organizational capital and testing whether … econometric estimates confirm strong positive productivity effects of human capital and branding capital. Results for innovative …

the skill-specific technological frontier subsequently show higher skill-specific productivity growth. For that, the …

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M … counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper provides empirical evidence into the role of acquiring firms’ absorptive … capacity for the post-merger patent productivity of the acquired inventors. Based on a sample of 544 inventors employed by …

This paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … higher productivity. Among the innovation types that we consider, the largest productivity returns were found for marketing … this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and …

During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially …" of technological information within the economy. They are providers, purchasers or partners in the context of innovation …. A sound innovation capacity, especially knowledge, creativity, market and management skills let them become bridges for …

products and services. Using the example of innovation in firms, we outline a framework for extracting information from firm …