In light of its importance of innovation on the political agenda it is necessary to provide guidance to decision makers … how innovation can effectively be fostered in practice and to disentangle and evaluate the effects of the determinants … suggested by the literature. This thesis focuses on the causal evaluation of three determinants of innovation that can all be …

Based on data from Germany, this study finds a positive link between using knowledge spillovers from rivals and … innovation success in establishments without R&D but not in establishments with R&D. This supports the hypothesis that rivals … knowledge is more valuable to establishments that are below the frontier of technology and product development. …

This study addresses the relationship between product innovation and the demand and supply of trade credit. Theoretical … as well as empirical studies are used to derive the hypothesis of a positive link between product innovation and trade …. Basically the estimation results confirm that introducing a product innovation is positively related with demand and provision …