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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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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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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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Durable Goods, Innovation and Network Externalities

Cerquera Dussán, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

We develop a model of R&D competition between an incumbent and a potential entrant with network externalities and durable goods. We show that the threat of entry eliminates the commitment problem that an incumbent may face in its R&D decision due to the goods? durability. Moreover, a potential...

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R&D incentives, compatibility and network externalities

Cerquera Dussán, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper analyzes the impact of network externalities on R&D competition between an incumbent and a potential entrant. The analysis shows that the incumbent always invests more than the entrant in the development of higher quality network goods. However, the incumbent exhibits a too low level...

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Dynamic R&D incentives with network externalities

Cerquera Dussán, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper studies the incentives to undertake uncertain R&D initiatives in a dynamic duopoly network industry. It is shown that network externalities positively affect the incentives to invest in R&D. In the model, competition resembles a preemption race and, therefore, market performance...

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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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ICT, Consulting and Innovative Capabilities

Cerquera Dussán, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

affects negatively the value of the introduced product and processes innovation. Second, the theoretical model suggests that …

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