Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 97
Cover Image
What drives market structure? On the relation between firm demographic processes, firms? innovative behaviour and market structure
Fauchart, Emmanuelle; Keilbach, Max - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
behaviour and distinguish between dierent innovation regimes. On the basis of a set of simulations of this model we derive a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098033
Cover Image
The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest less in current R&D as uncertainty about market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097745
Cover Image
Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?
Harhoff, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996
Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to cash flow for relatively small firms. Much of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567560
Cover Image
An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers' attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095352
Cover Image
Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis
Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957582
Cover Image
The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability
Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
-shore networks. Smaller firms find it easier to deal with the management complexity induced by geographical dispersion of innovation …We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … organizational processes and structures. Starting from complexity theory, we use three consecutive waves of the German part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957583
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957593
Cover Image
How important is industry-specific managerial experience for innovative firm performance?
Balsmeier, Benjamin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957603
Cover Image
Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms: A European perspective
Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957608
Cover Image
Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation: More money, more innovation?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of …. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957615