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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments

Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...

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ICT, Innovation and Business Performance in Services: Evidence for Germany and the Netherlands

van der Wiel, Henry; van Leeuwen, George; Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …

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Does Experience Matter? Innovations and the Productivity of ICT in German Services

Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...

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Do R&D subsidies matter? Evidence for the German service sector

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

innovative activities of German service firms. We investigate whether firms that receive public subsidies for innovation projects … innovative activities. The more grants a firm has received in the past, the more it invests in current innovation projects …

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R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models

Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper analyzes the effects of public R&D subsidies on R&D expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment. Cross sectional data at the firm level is used. By apllying parametric and...

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Concubinage or Marriage? Informal and Formal Cooperations for Innovation

Keilbach, Max; Bönte, Werner - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

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Open Source, ICT infrastructure and firm performance

Cerquera Dussán, Daniel; Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

This paper empirically studies the impact of the adoption of open source software (OSS) on firms' labor productivity and innovative behavior. Using a representative sample of German firms, the results show that the adoption of OSS operating systems for servers and general OSS applications has no...

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