Das Wachstums- und Entwicklungspotenzial von Volkswirtschaften hängt entscheidendvon den privaten Investitionen in das Produktionspotenzial ab. Umihre Wettbewerbsposition zu erhalten und auszubauen betreiben UnternehmenForschung und Entwicklung (FuE). Bei zunehmendem globalem Wettbewerb,sich...

This paper examines whether high quality, curriculum-based training at the workplace makes firms more innovative. Our dependent variable innovativeness is operationalized with four different measures: general innovation, product innovation, process innovation and patent applications. As...

Firms generate new knowledge that leads to innovations by recombining existing knowledge sources. A successful recombination depends on both the availability of a knowledge stock (human capital pool) that contains innovation-relevant knowledge and the regulation of the knowledge flow through the...