using a broad dataset of more than 1,000 innovative firms in Germany. We find that MNCs can compete on an equal footing with …

innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the … decision to cooperate with foreign partners. Some differences remain, however: In Germany, exporters are more likely to …

Information economics has emerged as the primary theoretical lens for framing financing decisions in firm R … more than 7,000 firm observations in Germany over a multi-year period. Our theoretical predictions are only supported for …

main channels: innovation and absorptive capacity. The quantitative results, based on a panel of 16 OECD countries from …

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. …

binding financing constraints, these endangered firms show a high responsiveness to cash flow shocks. Apart from these …