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Innovation, competition and incentives for R&D

Wörter, Martin; Rammer, Christian; Arvanitis, Spyros - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …

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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?

Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...

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The impact of brand use on innovation performance: Empirical results for Germany

Crass, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To … number of different ways, and optimize their innovation process. The success of a firm's innovation strategy has two … product innovation. Second, the ability to turn the market introduction of a product innovation into commercial success. While …

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Which firms use trademarks - and why? Representative firm-level evidence from Germany

Crass, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...

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Financial Constraints: Routine Versus Cutting Edge R&D Investment

Binz, Hanna L.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

We analyze financial constraints for R&D, where we account for heterogeneity among investments which has been neglected in previous literature. According to economic theory, investments should be distinguished by their degree of uncertainty, e.g. routine R&D versus cutting-edge R&D. Financial...

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R&D Investment and Financing Constraints of Small and Medium-Sized Firm

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Binz, Hanna L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This study tests for financial constraints on R&D investment and how they differ from capital investment. To identify constraints in the access to external capital, we employ a credit rating index. Our models show that internal constraints, measured by mark-ups, are more decisive for R&D than...

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