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Does the mobility of R&D labor increase innovation?

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2014 - This version: December 15, 2014

-level support for the notion that labor mobility stimulates overall innovation of a country or region due to knowledge transfer. …

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Innovation dynamics and endogenous market structure : econometric results from aggregated survey data

Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert Helmut - 2001

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

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Sources of spillovers for imitation and innovation

Cappellin, Riccardo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2013

market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …

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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?

Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - 2013

Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...

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The impact of brand use on innovation performance : empirical results for Germany

Crass, Dirk - 2014

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To … number of different ways, and optimize their innovation process. The success of a firm's innovation strategy has two … product innovation. Second, the ability to turn the market introduction of a product innovation into commercial success. While …

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New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries

Schmiele, Anja - 2009

This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …

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The effect of institutional ownership on firm innovation : evidence from Chinese listed firms

Rong, Zhao; Wu, Xiaokai; Boeing, Philipp - 2017

Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating … innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we further find that (1) the effect of institutional investors on firm patenting … robust when innovation quality is examined. …

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The impact of the financial crisis on investments in innovative firms

Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of the financial crisis on investment decisions in innovative versus non-innovative firms. Firms are defined as being innovative if they have introduced a new product to the market. The empirical test is based on data for the years before and after the recent...

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From less promising to green? : technological opportunities and their role in (green) ICT innovation

Cecere, Grazia; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2015

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …

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