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Habakkuk revisited: A history friendly model of "American and British technology in the nineteenth century"
Fontana, Roberto; Guerzoni, Marco; Nuvolari, Alessandro - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090507
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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success - an empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 ("Mannheim Innovation Panel"), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980453
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
drive innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032006
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The contribution of economic evaluation to decision-making in early phases of product development: a methodological and empirical review
Hartz, Susanne; John, Jürgen - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Background: Economic evaluation as an integral part of health technology assessment is today mostly applied to established technologies. Evaluating health care innovations in their early states of development has recently attracted attention. However, while it offers a number of benefits, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090506
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Cluster Innovation Along the Industry Lifecycle
Eisingerich, Andreas; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
interorganizational network strength, openness, university collaboration, and intrapreneurship on radical innovation across adolescent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090533
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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144510
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Firms' Differential Innovative Success and Market Dynamics
Cantner, Uwe - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper deals with innovative activities of firms, the resulting market success as well as the interdependencies between both. In a first theoretical part, different cases of those interdependencies are investigated by the way of a simple model based on replicator dynamics. It is shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090469
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Incumbent Innovation and Entry by Spinoff
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
incumbents are not willing or able to exploit. Accordingly, incumbent innovation determines exploitable knowledge externalities … for spinoffs while, at the same time, spinoffs are expected to influence incumbent innovation. To overcome this problem of … entry by spinoffs does, indeed, have a positive impact on incumbent innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090547
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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090571
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A Monte Carlo Comparison between the Free Cash Flow and Discounted Cash Flow Approaches
Akalu, Mehari Mekonnen; Turner, Rodney - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
One of the debates in the capital budgeting model selection is between the free cash flow and DCF methods. In this paper an attempt is made to compare SVA against NPV model based on Monte Carlo simulations. Accordingly, NPV is found less sensitive to value driver variations and has got higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137022