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Research and development (R&D) is a common process in for-profit organizations. Despite the benefits, it is not routinely practiced in nonprofit organizations, in part because it is difficult to identify the effects of programs that are designed to involve individuals over long periods of time....
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This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 gave it up in the following year. Some companies...
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How do new and foreign firms achieve superior productivity? Do they conduct more and better R&D? Or do they distinguish themselves through computerization and organizational capital? We investigate the determinants of and returns to several types of investment, using a panel of over 40,000...
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the existence or absence of spillovers, confirms that a co-existence is growth optimal for the industry. Further, we find …
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Technological changes in renewable energy technologies play an important role in the context of climate change as they contribute to a reduction of technology costs and lead to an increasing market penetration of emission reducing technologies. This paper provides a comprehensive literature...
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This paper discusses the impact of a firm's technology portfolio on its market value. Two concepts are used to characterize a firm's portfolio: the number of technological fields and the degree of relatedness within the portfolio characterized by the amount of joint occurrences of patents in...
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"; the agent receives the completing half after delivering the service. By forward induction, cooperation is incentive …-compatibly self-enforcing. The indenture performs very well, inducing a significantly higher level of cooperation than that in a three …-stage centipede game, which we use to benchmark the natural rate of cooperation. The difference between cooperation rates in both …
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and/or mature RSOs and otherwise created firms and, if so, to what extent they are driven by networking and cooperation … over otherwise created firms in terms of innovativeness is related to their higher intensity of cooperation activity and …
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We investigate the effects of regional and industry-wide foreign presence and foreign direct investment (FDI) on export volumes of Ukrainian manufacturing firms using unpublished panel data from 1996-2000. Foreign presence through FDI may have negative competition effects on domestic firms'...
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While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals this literature treats … whether spillovers occur via worker mobility. We use data on whether or not the owner of a domestic firm has previous …
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