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Intangible assets and firm-level productivity
Crass, Dirk; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing … productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital, branding capital and organizational capital and testing whether … econometric estimates confirm strong positive productivity effects of human capital and branding capital. Results for innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122562
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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers … face difficulties in using knowledge that comes from areas they are not familiar with. Establishments exploit spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097593
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Innovation Success of Non-R&D-Performers: Substituting Technology by Management in SMEs
Spielkamp, Alfred; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating successful innovations, inhouse R&D activities may be a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097673
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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
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Does Public Scientific Research Complement Industry R&D Investment? The Case of NIH Supported Basic and Clinical Research and Pharmaceutical Industry R&D
Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This research investigates the hypothesis that publicly funded scientific research complements private R&D investment in the pharmaceutical industry. New microlevel data on public research investment by the U.S. National Institutes of Health allow measures of basic and clinical research in seven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097919
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China's R&D explosion: Analyzing productivity effects across ownership types and over time
Boeing, Philipp; Mueller, Elisabeth; Sandner, Philipp - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
level of R&D. We analyze whether different R&D activities show a positive influence on total factor productivity (TFP) for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011139793
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An integrated assessment model with endogenous growth
Hübler, Michael; Baumstark, Lavinia; Leimbach, Marian; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
. We distinguish expenditures on innovation (R&D) and imitation (international technology spillovers) and consider the role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985694
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The energy-bias of North-South technology spillovers: A global, bilateral, bisectoral trade analysis
Hübler, Michael; Glas, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We examine variations in the South-North ratios (emerging vs. industrialized countries) of energy and labor intensities driven by imports. We use the novel World Input-Output Database (WIOD) that provides bilateral and bisectoral data for 40 countries and 35 sectors for 1995-2009. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985637
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Which indicators of absorptive capacity enhance import-induced South-North convergence in labor intensities?
Hübler, Michael; Glas, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985713
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Productivity effects of business process outsourcing: a firm-level investigation based on panel data
Ohnemus, Jörg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. …
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