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To Be Financed or Not: The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

Mueller, Elisabeth; Harhoff, Dietmar; Haeussler, Carolin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …

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Productivity effects of basic research in low-tech and high-tech industries

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

R&D encompasses plenty of activities which are usually summarized under the terms of basic research, applied research and development. Although basic research is often associated with low appropriability it provides the fundamental basis for subsequent applied research and development....

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Absorptive capacity and post-acquisition inventor productivity

Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M&As). It is of central managerial interest to identify factors facilitating the integration of new inventive staff and thereby counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper...

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...

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IT Capital, Job Content and Educational Attainment

Spitz, Alexandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

Based on a large data set containing information on occupations between 1979 and 1999, this study explores the ?black box? surrounding the skill?biased technological change hypothesis by analyzing the mechanisms that induce information technologies to be complementary to employees with higher...

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Technological change in economic models of environmental policy: a survey

Löschel, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper provides an overview of the treatment of technological change in economic models of environmental policy. Numerous economic modeling studies have confirmed the sensitivity of mid- and long-run climate change mitigation cost and benefit projections to assumptions about technology...

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Non-technological and Technological Innovation: Strange Bedfellows?

Schmidt, Tobias; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms? innovation activities that both supplement and complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to...

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Welche Regionen profitieren von Venture Capital-Aktivitäten?

Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

explanation. Venture-backed firms are mostly located in urban districts. A main reason is the advantage of urban regions to … generate a lot of new innovative ideas. Districts participated the BioRegio contest are attractive regions for venture capital …

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Do University Based Regions Really Attract Outside Entrepreneurs: The Case of the German Biotechnology Industry

Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

high start-up activity in knowledge intensive regions. Group differentiation shows that knowledge stock variables matter …

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Are Skill Requirements in the Workplace Rising? Stylized Facts and Evidence on Skill-Biased Technological Change

Spitz, Alexandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

The present analysis investigates skill requirements in the workplace, measured directly by the task-composition of occupations. It shows that the task composition of occupations has shifted toward analytical and interactive activities and away from manual and cognitive routine activities in...

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