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Heterogeneous preferences and new innovation cycles in mature industries: the camera industry 1955-1974

Windrum, Paul - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2004

The paper examines the innovation dynamics of the mature camera market between 1955 and 1974. This highlights the … heterogeneity, new firms engaged in radical product and process innovation and overcame the first-mover advantages of dominant firms …. The case raises important issues for our understanding of industry life cycles. First, a number of innovation cycles are …

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Empirical Analysis of the Assessment of Innovation Effects in U.S. Merger Cases

Kerber, Wolfgang; Kern, Benjamin; Dewenter, Ralf - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014

and 2008 were analyzed in regard to the question to what extent and how the agencies assessed the innovation effects of … mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question how negative effects of mergers on innovation should be taken into … account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation …

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Is Academic Entrepreneurship Good or Bad for Science? Empirical Evidence from the Max Planck Society

Buenstorf, Guido - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2006

Based on new data, this paper studies invention disclosure, licensing, and firm formation activities of Max Planck Institute directors over the time period 1985-2004, and analyzes their effects on scientists' publication and citation records. The results are consistent with prior findings that...

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The Regional Dimension of Knowledge Transfers - A Behavioral Approach

Broekel, Tom; Binder, Martin - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2006

Innovations are inherently connected to knowledge transfers. The need of face-to-face contacts to transfer tacit knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who...

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Distance to Frontier and Appropriate Business Strategy

Coad, Alexander - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008

This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...

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Micro-dynamics of knowledge: actors, processes and territorial organization

Strambach, Simone - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013

innovation biographies. …

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Science, Innovation and National Growth

Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014

This paper studies the effects of public research (publications) and innovation output (patents) on national economic … as well as less and more developed countries are studied separately. The results confirm the effect of innovation output … on productivity for more developed countries. Simultaneously, innovation output is found to have negative impacts on …

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Offsetting versus Mitigation Activities to Reduce CO2 Emissions: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis for the U.S. and Germany

Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012

This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...

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Women and Work: What Role Do Social Norms Play?

Tolciu, Andreia; Zierahn, Ulrich - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2010

Against the background of the current economic research which concentrates particularly on individual and structural factors, this paper examines if and to what extent social norms (in terms of attitudes towards gender roles and work commitment) can make a complementary statement in explaining...

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Logistic Regression for Extremely Rare Events: The Case of School Shootings

Westphal, Christian - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013

School shootings are often used in public policy debate as a justification for increased regulation, based on qualitative arguments. However, to date, no effort has been made to find valid quantitative evidence for the claims bolstering the regulation recommendations. In defense of this absence...

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