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Invention in energy technologies: Comparing energy efficiency and renewable energy inventions at the firm level

Rexhäuser, Sascha; Löschel, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

true. Using a panel of German firms linked to the PATSTAT patent data, we study invention in both types of energy … relation between conventional (i.e. non-energy) invention and energy invention within the firms. The results from dynamic count …

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Policy-induced environmental technology and incentive efforts: Is there a crowding out?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …

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Young, open and international: the impact of search strategies on the internationalization of new ventures

Zimmermann, Jörg; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the …

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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance

Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and...

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End-of-Pipe or Cleaner Production? An Empirical Comparison of Environmental Innovation Decisions Across OECD Countries

Frondel, Manuel; Horbach, Jens; Rennings, Klaus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

While both fundamental types of abatement measures mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of production, cleaner production technologies are frequently more advantageous than end-of-pipe technologies for environmental and economic reasons. This paper analyzes a variety of factors that might...

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Dynamic Optimal Capital Structure and Technological Change

Lööf, Hans - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper incorporates the cost of adjustment between observed and optimal leverage in explaining the variation in firm?s equity or bank-debt financing investments. Using a dynamic adjustment approach identifies the determinants to capital structure between different financial systems. In...

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The Demand of Heterogeneous Labour in Germany

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997

In this paper, four commonly provided explanations for the shift in labour demand for different skill groups are investigated: the substitutability of inputs; the own-price sensitivity for different types of labour; the effect of economic growth and the impact of technological change. In...

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Does interdisciplinarity lead to higher employment growth of academic spinoffs?

Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Does heterogeneity in the educational backgrounds of the founders matter for firm success? Are team foundations more successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is measured by employment growth. I find that team...

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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal

Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

member states, different institutional infrastructures for entrepreneurship. Based on a harmonized dataset, our results …

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Matching of Individuals for Start-Ups: A Test of the O-Ring Theory

Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

In this paper I analyse how individuals match for for the purpose of setting up a new firm. As a theoretical basis I use the O-ring theory introduced by Kremer (1993) and applied to new firms by Fabel (2004). The O-ring theory predicts that individuals segregate between firms according to their...

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