Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

organizational environmental innovation that may lead to improved environmental performance. While the paper provides a descriptive … analysis of the determinants for EMS-adoption and incentives that may trigger environmental innovation activities within German … the process of complex firm decisions on innovation and environmental performance. While the relevant literature on these …

perspectives and innovation behaviour integrated environmental technologies will become more relevant whereas employment in …

innovation process. This paper uses two German panel data bases, the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research … (IAB) and the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), to explore the … of the data bases to analyze hypotheses derived from the theoretical (environmental) innovation literature. The …

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analyzing these effects for different environmental innovation fields. We use the 2009 wave of the German part of the Community … Innovation Panel (CIS) allowing for such an analysis at the firm level. The main focus of the paper lies on the analysis of the … adaptation behavior of firms with respect to the relationship of employment and (environmental) innovation. We use an endogenous …

The theoretical and empirical innovation literature stresses the importance of regional fac-tors and locational … conditions for location choice of firms and their innovation success. Innovation activities are not equally distributed in space … because agglomeration effects and specific regional infrastructures may promote innovation success. Concerning environmentally …