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Look who's talking : on the heterogeneous returns to foreign language use at work among natives and migrants in Europe

Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - 2017

language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …

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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2014

This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...

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University spinoffs and the “performance premium”

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - 2013

The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696949

The Effect of Changing Technology Use on Plant Performance in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector

Baldwin, John R.; Sabourin, David - 2009

, probably through its impact on product innovation. The market rewards those businesses that managed to improve their efficiency …

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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

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Towards a theory and policy of eco-innovation : neoclassical and (co-)evolutionary perspectives

Rennings, Klaus - 1998

Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the … need can be identified to improve our understanding of innovation processes toward sustainability in their different … (co-)evolutionary approaches from environmental and innovation economics to fill this gap. It is argued that both …

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Haftungsregeln und Innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

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Management control and innovative activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative activities. There are opposing effects concerning R&D intensity in the manager-controlled firm. Our study on the determinants of R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning...

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Die Auswirkung der Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik auf die Innovationsaktivitäten ostdeutscher Unternehmen

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2001 - Diese Version: Oktober 2001

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding-out effects between public and private means occur. A non … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …

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The effects of public R&D subsidies on firms' innovation activities : the case of Eastern Germany

Almus, Matthias; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002 - This version: August 2002

This study analyzes the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern … innovation activities by about four percentage points. …

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