Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Start-up subsidies: Does the policy instrument matter?

    New knowledge-intensive firms contribute to innovation, competition, and employment growth, but externalities like knowledge spillovers can prevent entrepreneurs from appropriating the full returns from their…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Circular Economy Innovations, Growth and Employment at the Firm Level: Empirical Evidence from Germany

    Circular economy (CE) describes a concept that aims at saving resources by minimizing the use of material and energy over the entire life-cycle of products, including production and repair, as well as reuse and…

  3. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2020

    Innovation, Employment and the Business Cycle

  4. Refereed Journal // 2019

    External financing constraints and firm innovation

    We investigate the effect of individual banks affected by the recent financial crisis of 2008/2009 on the innovation activities of their business customers. Firms associated with a bank that relies strongly on…