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  • Events // 09.10.2025

    conference is to discuss recent scientific contributions on entrepreneurial activity, its interdependencies with innovation, environmental sustainability and financial burdens, as well as its challenges [...] Business dynamism Direct and indirect contributions of entrepreneurial firms to innovation Transformation through entrepreneurship (green start-ups, social entrepreneurship)

  • Publications // 18.09.2024

    the firm's innovation activities on the other. We investigate whether climate change affectedness leads to more innovations that reduce negative environmental impacts (‘eco-innovations’), and [...] other innovation activities are crowded-out by more eco-innovation (with potential adverse effects on technical progress and productivity). We use a novel data source from the Community Innovation Survey [...] positively linked to eco-innovations. For other innovation activities we also find positive, albeit lower effects, suggesting that there is no crowding-out of non-eco-innovations due to the economic consequences

  • Publications // 12.02.2024

  • Publications // 07.06.2023

    develops our understanding of the relationship between late-career entrepreneurship and innovation-driven business activity. Based on observations of 2903 solo founders of new ventures in Germany in 2008–2017 [...] product/service innovations that are ‘new to the market’. Our explorations specifically reveal that older founders who draw on personal financial resources and combine their innovation orientation [...] generate the types of innovations that bring new products or services to the market. We conclude by discussing how our study's insights contribute to the research agenda on innovations in late-career ent

  • Publications // 25.05.2022

    world-first product innovations in these firms of about €16 billion (i.e. 18% of total annual sales of world-first innovations). In addition, AI technologies have been used in process innovation that contributed [...] between the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and innovation performance in firms. Based on firm-level data from the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2018, we examine the role of different [...] different AI methods and application areas in innovation. The results show that 5.8% of firms in Germany were actively using AI in their business operations or products and services in 2019. We find that the

  • Publications // 23.05.2022

    firms’ performance with product innovations new to the market. Our analysis builds on a sample of innovation-active firms from the German Community Innovation Survey, which includes information on [...] enhanced with information on firms' engagement in patenting and publishing. We find that 26% of innovation-active firms engage in at least one of the three practices, and 22% of engaging firms combine them [...] Firms use a variety of practices to disclose the knowledge generated by their R&D activities, including, but not limited to, publishing findings in scientific journals, patenting new technologies,

  • Publications // 11.12.2017

    innovation activities fell sharply. In this paper, we explore the mechanisms behind the declining trend in the share of innovation active firms. Considering both input (R&D activities) and output (introduction [...] Innovation activities in the German business sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation [...] Community Innovation Survey. Our results show that smaller firms and firms in sectors with less innovation competition are more likely to stop innovating. We also show that better financial situation and public

  • Publications // 08.08.2016

    Extant research has characterized a firm’s search for external knowledge in its innovation activities as either relational or transactional in nature. The former implies that a firm chooses and develops [...] strategies are interrelated and complementary: adopting one strategy has a higher marginal return on innovation performance if the other one is present. Moreover, we suggest the benefits from complementarity

  • Publications // 12.06.2013

  • Publications // 16.05.2012

    A significant amount of money is spent on programs to stimulate innovative activities. In this paper, we review the effects of a specific government-sponsored commercial R&D program from various angles

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