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Firm size and Innovation in European Manufacturing
Pianta, Mario; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
The paper investigates the differences between small, medium-sized and large firms regarding their performance in the introduction of new products and processes. After a review of the relevant literature, two models are proposed and tested in search for different business strategies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818901
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Entrepreneurship, knowledge, and the industrial revolution
Attar, M. Aykut - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model that explains the timing and the inevitability of an industrial revolution through entrepreneurs' role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956077
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Minimum quality standards and novelty requirements in a one-shot development race
Prokop, Jacek; Regibeau, Pierre; Rockett, Katharine - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
not necessarily increase either the profits or, consequently, the investment levels of the initial innovator, contrary to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083363
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Mobility of Research Workers and Knowledge Diffusion as Evidenced in Patent Data The Case of Liquid Crystal Display Technoloy
Stolpe, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
This paper analyses the nature of knowledge spillovers from research and development (R&D) in the field of liquid crystal display technology by estimating the impact of inventorsÂ’ changing organizational and collaborative affiliations on the probability of citations in US patents filed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700621
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Do Active Innovation Policies Matter? – Findings from a Survey on the Hong Kong Electronics SMEs
LIU, Wan-Hsin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
Since 1997 the Hong Kong (HK) government has markedly changed its role from being a mere institution provider to being an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566194
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Determinants of growth and convergence in a growing economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs
Dohse, Dirk; Ott, Ingrid - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755150
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R&D-driven Biases in Energy-Saving Technical Change: A "Putty-Practically-Clay" Approach
Zon, Adriaan van; Lontzek, Thomas S. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
In the past years biofuels have received increased attention since they were believed to contribute to rural development, energy security and to fight global warming. It became also clear, though, that bioenergy cannot be evaluated independently of the rest of the economy and that national and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755156
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Innovation and Productivity in European Industries
Pianta, Mario; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining productivity and export success in European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755207
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Multinational versus national firms on capital adjustment costs: A structural approach
Lapatinas, Athanasios - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
ownership and capital demand adjustment in host countries. The author estimates a dynamic structural model of investment on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011263001
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External factors affecting investment decisions of companies
Bialowolski, Piotr; Weziak-Bialowolska, Dorota - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
In this paper we attempt to investigate the importance of certain external factors on the investment decision among … Polish companies. With the use of data from the tailored made Survey on Receivables we examine factors influencing investment … finally we determine the relative influence of these factors on the actual investment reductions. The results showed that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956060