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 …

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

relating to the relevant incentives for (1) a firm's voluntary adoption of an EMS and (2) its environmental innovation behavior … bivariate probit model that explicitly takes into account that a facility's decision on innovation activities is correlated with … the decision on EMS certification. Our empirical results indicate that environmental innovation activities are not …

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 …

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 …

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

a unique database combining the Community Innovation Survey 2014 for Germany and NUTS 3 data on renewable energy plants … regulation, government subsidies for eco-innovation, high energy costs and regional knowledge spillovers contribute to a rapid …