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The role of technology in M&As : a firm-level comparison of cross-border and domestic deals

Frey, Rainer; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim> - 2006

Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of mergeractivities. This paper analyzes the role of technology in mergers and acquisitions(M&As) at the firm level. Based on a newly created data set that combines financialinformation and patent data for public limited...

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Gains and Pains from Contract Research : A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Grimpe, Christoph; Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

Determining the research and development (R&D) boundaries of the firm as the choicebetween internal, collaborative and external technology acquisition has since long been amajor challenge for firms to secure a continuous stream of innovative products or processes.While research on R&D...

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Motives for Innovation Co-operation Evidence from theCanadian Survey of Innovation

Schmidt Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sectorto co-operate on innovation projects …. Our focus is on the motives behind this decisionand the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation … activities,which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from theCanadian Survey of Innovation 2005 we find …

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THE FIVE DRIVERS: AN EMPIRICAL REVIEW

Fawcett, Nicholas; Cameron, Gavin - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005

Productivity, or the amount of output produced by a given number of inputs,can be measured in a number of ways;1 the focus of Governmentpolicy, and much of the theoretical and empirical literature, is on labourproductivity, which provides the theme of the discussion in this review.A central...

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THE SUN ALSO RISES: PRODUCTIVITY CONVERGENCE BETWEENJAPAN AND THE USA

Cameron, Gavin - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2000

The growth process for a technological leader is different from that of a follower.While followers can grow through imitation and capital deepening, a leader must undertakeoriginal research. This suggests that as the gap between the leader and the follower narrows, thefollower must undertake...

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International Cooperation on Innovation : Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

In this paper we investigate the factors that lead firms to cooperate withpartners from foreign countries on innovation … activities. Portuguese and Germandata from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us tocompare innovation …

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KNOWLEDGE-DRIVEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2006

This paper examines the impact of mass media and information andcommunications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures oneconomic development. The results strongly suggest that both mass me-dia and ICT penetration are negatively associated with corruption. Thisresult holds across...

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KNOWLEDGE FLOW AND SEQUENTIAL INNOVATION:IMPLICATIONS FOR TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION, R&DAND MARKET VALUE

Belenzon, Sharon - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2006

It is shown that spillovers can enhance private returns to innovation if they feedback into the dynamic research of the … isreabsorbed by its inventor. A simple model of sequential innovation with dynamicspillovers is developed, which predicts that …

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Heterogeneity of Patenting Activity and Its Implications for Scientific Research

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim> - 2007

The increasing commercialization of university discoveries has initiated acontroversy on the impacts for future scientific research. It has been argued that anincreasing orientation towards commercialization may have a negative impact onmore fundamental research efforts in science. Several...

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Inventors Response to Firm Acquisitions

Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) constitute a disruption to the workingenvironment of the inventive labor force of the acquired company. If inventors wouldrespond with a decline of their patent productivity or departure from the firm thiscan be detrimental to the innovative process within the...

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