from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … external knowledge by encouraging individuals’ involvement in a firm’s innovation projects. … organisation of knowledge sharing within a firm on the absorptive capacity of innovative firms for three different types of …

special innovation-related assets by acquiring firms with “superior” innovative performance; or acquirers seeking to acquire … high-tech companies they acquire. Using a large sample of acquisitions involving publicly traded firms from various … firms with “inferior” innovative performance in order to turn them around. We find evidence that acquisition is a very noisy …

The role of financial institutions and corporate governance in the conduct and performance of industrial firms …, especially in the area of technological innovation and international competition has been hotly debated in the recent past. The … results presented here are a contribution to the empirical evidence on the behavior of individual firms that exist in somewhat …

This paper formulates dynamic R\&D investment decisions of private firms as an optimal stochastic control problem. It … panel data on firms to deal with unobserved technological knowledge, to estimate the structural parameters, and to test the …

This paper analyzes the incentives for governments to impose export subsidies when firms invest in a cost saving … technology before market competition. Governments first impose an export subsidy or a tax. After observing export policy, firms …

This paper formulates a model of optimal export decision of private firms and then empirically studies the effect of … firm size, R&D activities and competitiveness on export performance of Indian private firms during the period 1975 …-1986. The paper argues that the Cragg model is more appropriate to model firms’ export behavior than the commonly used Tobit …