We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by private equity firms on innovation, focusing … funds and insurance companies across countries and over time. We also control for the standard determinants of innovation … aggregate (private equity plus R&D) industrial spending, PE accounts for as much as 12% of industrial innovation. We also …

and Corporate Innovation Processes' an der Technischen Universität Dresden dar. Diese besteht aus sechs bereits … Möglichkeit, auf diese neuen Ansprüche zu reagieren, ist Anpassung durch Innovation. Das übergeordnete Ziel der Dissertation ist … Innovation Processes' at the Technical University of Dresden. It consists of six already published papers and articles. Because …

results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms …

); * innovation potential, including R&D, information and communication technologies, and institutional environment; * openness and …

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …

This paper studies the relationship between trade credit and innovation. While trade credit is well researched in the … finance literature, its link to innovation has been neglected in prior research. We argue that innovative small and medium … partners may have incentives to offer trade credit especially to innovative SMEs. The relationship between innovation and trade …