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Industrial research versus development investment: the implications of financial constraints

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Previous literature provided evidence on financing constraints for investment in R&D activities due to capital market imperfections and special features of R&D investments. Moreover, it has been shown that a shift in capital structure towards more debt, results in a reduction of R&D investments....

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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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The design paradox: the contribution of in-house and external design activities on product market performance

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has not been linked to the open innovation concept yet. In this …

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The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'

Thorwarth, Susanne; Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

Many studies investigate the relationship between R&D expenditures as an input and patents as an intermediate product or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions has been underestimated in the literature, as scholars...

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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity

Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private …

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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity

Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804642