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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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China's R&D subsidies: Allocation and effectiveness

Boeing, Philipp - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

-oriented provincial governments and that China's innovation policy is more supportive of firms located in developed provinces. Considering …

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China's R&D explosion: Analyzing productivity effects across ownership types and over time

Boeing, Philipp; Mueller, Elisabeth; Sandner, Philipp - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

In the past years Chinese firms increased their spending on R&D substantially and worked on achieving a higher quality level of R&D. We analyze whether different R&D activities show a positive influence on total factor productivity (TFP) for firms of different ownership types and across two time...

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