innovation activities during periods of recession. We empirically analyse what general patterns can be distinguished in this …: some companies have recently reduced their innovation activities significantly, while others maintained them and a third … deceleration of R&D and innovation activities induced by the crisis, but the trend figures remain positive. Driven by the companies …

-financial corporate sector, the paper provides strong evidence to support the theory that currency matching plays a role in exporters …

R&D as well as the entire innovation process are likely to be affected by the current crisis. Apart from changes in R …&D spending, as any crisis usually provides also chances it may stimulate a new wave of networked / open innovation and in this … funding of corporate R&D and innovation activities are holding up fairly well so far which suggests an anticyclic firm …