In 2020, firms expected their innovation expenditures to decrease by about 2% in 2020 compared to 2019. This decline is much smaller than that in 2009 following the financial crisis, when innovation expenditures fell by 11%. However, smaller firms with 5 to 99 employees planned to cut their...

The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to...

Eine leistungsfähige Telekommunikationsinfrastruktur und innovative Anbieter von Telekommunikationsdiensten sind ein wesentliches Fundament für moderne Industriegesellschaften. Moderne Telekommunikation ermöglicht den raschen, sicheren, kostengünstigen und flexiblen Austausch von...