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A comparison of firm-level innovation cooperation in five European countries

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Bolli, Thomas - 2009

in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. In a first step we analyse cooperation …

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How do different motives for R&D cooperation affect firm performance? : an analysis based on Swiss micro data

Arvanitis, Spyridon - 2009

Starting point of our analysis is the empirical fact that firms pursue different goals when getting engaged in R&D collaborations, often more than one goal at the same time. Given that firms are driven by different motives for R&D cooperation, the aim of this article is to investigate the...

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Employee education, information and communication technology, workplace organization and trade : a comparative analysis of Greek and Swiss enterprises

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Loukis, Euripidis N. - 2009

industries) in Greece and Switzerland; from these data econometric models of similar specification have been constructed for both …. Our results show both similarities and differences in the above aspects between Greece and Switzerland and indicate that …

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From knowledge to added value : a comparative, panel-data analysis of the innovation value chain in Irish and Swiss manufacturing firms

Roper, Stephen; Arvanitis, Spyridon - 2009

Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small, very open and depend significantly on innovation to maintain competitive … advantage. In recent years, however, R&D and innovation growth in Ireland has been markedly stronger than that in Switzerland …-economic evidence. -- Innovation ; value chain ; Switzerland ; Ireland …

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Factors determining the adoption of energy-saving technologies in Swiss firms : an analysis based on micro data

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Ley, Marius - 2010

This study investigates the factors that determine the inter-firm and intra-firm adoption rates of energy-saving technologies. These factors can be on theoretical terms firm-specific rank effects, inducement effects, adoption barriers as well as order, stock and epidemic effects that are related...

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Auswirkungen der bilateralen Abkommen auf die Schweizer Wirtschaft

Aeppli, Roland; Altenburg, Marc; Arvanitis, Spyridon; … - 2008

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Employee education, information and communication technologies, workplace organization, and trade : a comparative analysis of Greek and Swiss firms

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Loukis, Euripidis - In: Industrial and corporate change 24 (2015) 6, pp. 1417-1442

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Impact of external knowledge acquisition strategies on innovation : a comparative study based on Dutch and Swiss panel data

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre A.; … - 2013

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, "buy" and "cooperate", on firm's product innovation performance. Taking a direct (productivity) approach, we test for...

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How Swiss small- and medium-sized firms assess the performance impact of mergers and acquisitions

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Stucki, Tobias - 2012

While previous studies on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) mostly relied on large firms, our study is based on a sample that includes all Swiss M&As that took place in the period 2006-2008, mostly of which have been SMEs. We investigate the firm characteristics that determine the innovation and...

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The choice of foreign locations of Swiss MNEs

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Hollenstein, Heinz; Stucki, Tobias - 2012

In this paper, the parent firms' choice of FDI locations is analyzed based on a unique firm-level dataset for Swiss MNEs. The data allows a detailed characterization of parent companies, their foreign subsidiaries and the two-way trade flows between parent companies and foreign affiliates. In...

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