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The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest …&D investment is smaller in concentrated markets – those where market power is higher and strategic rivalry is more intense. Further …, the effect of uncertainty on R&D investment is attenuated for large firms which may be the result greater economies of …
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Innovationen, Anlageinvestitionen und immaterielle Investitionen
Rammer, Christian; Köhler, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Beziehung verschiedener Konzepte von investiven Ausgaben in Unternehmen, ihre Verbindung zu Innovationen und die Faktoren, die Innovations- und Investitionsentscheidungen von Unternehmen beeinflussen. Neben dem traditionellen Investitionsbegriff, der sich...
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Capital Control, Debt Financing and Innovative Activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
investment into innovative activity. In addition, the role of debt financing is analyzed. Subsequently the results from an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097531
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On the Profitability of Innovative Assets
Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
Successful innovative activity is a major contribution to the intangible capital of firms. Although its importance is generally acknowledged, the contribution to companies? profits is a priori unclear. We present the results of an empirical study on the effects of the patent stock on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097921
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Innovation dynamics and endogenous market structure: econometric results from aggregated survey data
Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous framework at the industry level of aggregation. We use a model in which R&D affects both, demand and cost conditions. An optimization process leads to optimal industry R&D expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098331
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Buyer power and suppliers' incentives to innovate
Köhler, Christian; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking into account the type of competition in the...
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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 empirical analysis, based on the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2008) and CIS data for 16 countries, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due...
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Quantity or quality? Collaboration strategies in research and development and incentives to patent
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms that collaborative R&D has a positive effect on firms' patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. When distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and alliances that aim at exchange of...
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In search for the not-invented-here syndrome: The role of knowledge sources and firm success
Hussinger, Katrin; Wastyn, Annelies - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
The not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome refers to internal resistance in a company against externally developed knowledge. In this paper, we argue that the occurrence of the NIH syndrome depends on the source of external knowledge and the success of the firm that aims at adapting external...
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Mobile network interconnection and investments
Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
functions. Testing for a common regulation-investment effect provides evidence that the negative investment externality is not …
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