Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. JUNGE UNTERNEHMEN // 2023

    Jahrgang 23, Nr. 11, Mai 2023

    • Einbruch des Gründungsgeschehens durch den Ukraine-Krieg und Lang- und Kurzfristfaktoren
  2. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. The main feature of new…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-015 // 2023

    Intended and Unintended Knowledge Spillovers in Innovation

    Firms can use different sources of external knowledge for developing and implementing innovations. Some knowledge is provided deliberately by the source and constitutes intended knowledge spillovers, e.g.,…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-014 // 2023

    Pandemic Effects: Do Innovation Activities of Firms Suffer From Long-Covid?

    The COVID-19 pandemic has affected firms in many economies. Exploiting treatment heterogeneity, we use a difference-in-differences design to causally identify the shortrun impact of COVID-19 on innovation…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2023

    The digital layer: alternative data for regional and innovation studies

    The lack of large-scale data revealing the interactions among firms has constrained empirical studies. Utilizing relational web data has remained unexplored as a remedy for this data problem. We constructed a…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Reaching beyond the acquirer-target dyad in M&A – Linkages to external knowledge sources and target firm valuation

    Access to unique knowledge of a target firm is the strategic rationale for many firm acquisitions with the expectation of improving the acquirer's innovation performance. We argue that the acquisition price…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Innovation in hyperlink and social media networks: Comparing connection strategies of innovative companies in hyperlink and social media networks

    This paper seeks to unveil how (geospatial) connection strategies associated with business innovation, differ between geolocated social media and hyperlink company networks. Thereby, we provide a first step…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-010 // 2023

    The Effect of Staged Project Management on Product Innovation: Evidence from a Firm Survey

    This study examines whether staged project management is beneficial or harmful for making product innovations. Using a unique firm survey for Japan, we find that firms that employed staged project management had…