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The contribution of intangible assets to sectoral productivity growth in the EU

Niebel, Thomas; O'Mahony, Mary; Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

In this paper we report on new data on intangible investment at the level of 1-digit NACE industries of 10 EU countries. The data are constructed as a sectoral breakdown of the INTANInvest database, which contains measures of intangible investment at the level of the aggregate business sector....

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Intangible assets and investments at the sector level: Empirical evidence for Germany

Crass, Dirk; Licht, Georg; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper investigates the role intangible capital plays for economic growth in different sectors in Germany. It consists of two major parts. In the first part, we aim at measuring investment in intangibles at the sector level. We shed light on differences across sectors but also compare these...

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Effective tax rates under IP tax planning

Evers, Lisa; Spengel, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Tax planning with intangibles has become one of the most popular and most vividly debated topics in international taxation. We incorporate various intellectual property (IP) tax planning models into forward-looking measures of effective tax rates, namely the disposal of intangibles to low-tax...

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Spillovers in networks of user generated content: Evidence from 23 natural experiments on Wikipedia

Kummer, Michael E. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Endogeneity in network formation hinders the identification of the role social networks play in generating spillovers, peer effects and other externalities. This paper tackles this problem and investigates how the link network between articles on the German Wikipedia influences the attention and...

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Spillovers in networks of user generated content: Pseudo-experimental evidence on Wikipedia

Kummer, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

I quantify spillovers of attention in a network of content pages, which is challenging, because such networks form endogenously. I exploit exogenous variation in the article network of German Wikipedia to circumvent this problem. Wikipedia prominently advertises one featured article on its main...

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University spinoffs and the 'performance premium'

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and …

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Research grants, sources of ideas and the effects on academic research

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Based on a sample of research units in science and engineering at German universities, this study reports survey evidence showing that research grants impact research content. Research units that receive funds from industry are more likely to source ideas from the private sector. The higher the...

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Against the one-way-street: Analyzing knowledge transfer from industry to science

Fier, Heide; Pyka, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This study aims at analyzing the differences in the factors that influence the probability of knowledge transfer within … industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis …

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Heterogeneity of Patenting Activity and Its Implications for Scientific Research

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

The increasing commercialization of university discoveries has initiated a controversy on the impacts for future scientific research. It has been argued that an increasing orientation towards commercialization may have a negative impact on more fundamental research efforts in science. Several...

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Successful Patterns of Scientific Knowledge Sourcing: Mix and Match

Sofka, Wolfgang; Aschhoff, Birgit - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

Valuable knowledge emerges increasingly outside of firm boundaries, in particular in public research institutions and … universities. The question is how firms organize their interactions with universities effectively to acquire knowledge and apply it … findings show that formal forms of interaction (joint/contract) research provide the best balance between joint knowledge …

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