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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
new knowledge and alliances that aim at exchange of existing knowledge, the results suggest that the positive effect on … patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …
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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 knowledge. In line with social identity theory, we hypothesize that …
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Mobile network interconnection and investments
Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
Abstract In markets with competing interconnected networks like mobile telecommunication markets investments affect the investor’s and also any competitors’ profits. In a theoretical model it is shown that cost-reducing investments reduce the investor’s termination rates and increase...
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Increasing energy and resource efficiency through innovation: an explorative analysis using innovation survey data
Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
Energy and resource efficiency innovations (EREIs) are often seen as win-win opportunities for both the economic and the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do...
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Does social software support service innovation?
Meyer, Jenny - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal … and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software …) and knowledge-intensive service firms, this is the first paper which empirically analyses the question whether the use 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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Patent protection, market uncertainty, and R&D investment
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
The real options investment theory shows that greater uncertainty about market revenues reduces current R&D investment by increasing the value of waiting. This paper presents empirical evidence that patent protection mitigates the effect market uncertainty on R&D investment.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097775
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Savings, expectations and technological unemployment: a generalization of assumptions for the Hicksian fixwage traverse
Kraus, Margit; Wirth, Steffen - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
technologically caused business cycles. …
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Haftungsregeln und Innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
In dieser Studie werden die Anreize für Innovationsaktivitäten von Firmen mit beschränkter und unbeschränkter Haftung untersucht. Innovationen sind mit einem gewissen Risiko behaftet. Firmeneigner können ihr persönliches Risiko jedoch begrenzen, wenn das Unternehmen eine Rechstform mit...
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