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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 …, 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
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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries
Schmiele, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469767
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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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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data From Four European Countries
Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
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Haftungsregeln und Innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097836
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Measuring the impact of innovation on firm value: a new approach
Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
Most of the existing empirical literature on the relationship of firm value and knowledge capital is based on the stock market valuation of companies. However, the assets of many firms are not publicly traded, and hence the calculation of market value is limited to a subsample of firms. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097946
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Innovationsaktivitäten von kmU im verarbeitenden Gewerbe: Was zeichnet Imitatoren und originäre Innovatoren aus?
Zimmermann, Volker - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098257
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FDI and Taxation: A Meta-Study
Feld, Lars P.; Heckemeyer, Jost Henrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Despite the continuing political interest in the usefulness of tax competition and tax coordination as well as the wealth of theoretical analyses, it still remains open whether or when tax competition is harmful. Moreover, the influence of tax differentials on multinationals' decisions is still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097490
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Exports versus FDI in German Manufacturing: Firm Performance and Participation in International Markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097979
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The Effects of Multinationals? Profit Shifting Activities on Real Investments
Overesch, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
This paper investigates whether the size of multinationals? real investments in a high-tax country is affected by profit shifting activities. A simple theoretical analysis shows that tax rates abroad impact the cost of capital in the presence of profit shifting activities of multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098280