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Italy must foster high growth industries
Gebauer, Stefan; Kritikos, Alexander; Kriwoluzky, Alexander - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 7/9, pp. 65-74
an efficient innovation system or substantial R&D investments, were ignored. Going forward, governmental reforms should …
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The link between R&D, innovation and productivity : are micro firms different?
Baumann, Julian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2016
We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …
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"Pact for innovation" to promote the EU’s major aim of convergence
Kritikos, Alexander - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 146-147
Economic convergence is a major aim of the EU. Innovation and investment in economically weaker regions are key steps … member states and increase economic disparities • Pact for Innovation: structural funds with a strong focus on innovation …
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The Greek private sector remains full of untapped potential
Kritikos, Alexander; Handrich, Lars; Mattes, Anselm - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 29, pp. 263-272
Private businesses’ nominal value added in Greece has fallen by 38 percent over the last ten years. Micro firms were hit particularly hard. Despite efforts to stabilize the macroeconomic environment, there are only weak signs of recovery. Future prospects are not much better, as—with the...
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Firm size and innovation in the service sector
Audretsch, David B.; Hafenstein, Marian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018
), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958696
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The importance of equity finance for R&D activity : are there differences between young and oldcompanies?
Müller, Elisabeth (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&D activity of small and medium-sized enterprises. We use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as instrument to control for endogeneity, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888735
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Bestimmungsgründe des Innovationserfolgs von baden-württembergischen KMU
Rammer, Christian; Costard, Jano; Seliger, Florian; … - 2008
Das Forschungsprojekt hatte zum Ziel, die Innovationsperformance von KMU in Baden- Württemberg im Vergleich zu KMU aus anderen deutschen Bundesländern zu untersuchen und die Faktoren zu analysieren, die für eine möglicherweise überdurchschnittlich hohe Innovationsperformance der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003991051
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The importance of equity finance for R&D activity : are there differences between young and oldcompanies?
Müller, Elisabeth (contributor);  … - 2007 - Rev. version
This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&D activity of small and medium-sized enterprises. We use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as instrument to control for endogeneity, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003671082
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The importance of equity finance for R&D activity - are there differences between young and oldcompanies?
Müller, Elisabeth (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&D activity of small and medium-sized enterprises. We use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as instrument to control for endogeneity, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301146
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Loan availability and investment : can innovative companies better cope with loan denials?
Müller, Elisabeth; Reize, Frank - 2010
mezzanine capital, when facing a loan denial. -- Investment ; loan availability ; innovation ; private equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961525