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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

This contribution is concerned with the spread of new products in small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Based on an empirical study it is analyzed according to which factors planned product launches are either genuine market novelties or products that are new from the...

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Vertical integration, separation and non-price discrimination: An empirical analysis of German electricity markets for residential customers

Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

The literature on vertical integration in markets with regulated upstream prices suggests that the integrated upstream firm might engage in non-price discrimination. Several studies provide policy recommendations derived either from case study approaches or based on theoretical modeling which...

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Investment under uncertainty and regulation of new access networks

Inderst, Roman; Peitz, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Contractual and regulatory provisions for access affect incentives to invest in an upgraded network and, in particular, a next-generation access network. Investment decisions are made under uncertainty and have to be made over time. This papers provides a framework for taking uncertainty, risk...

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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

UK. Results show that displacement effects induced by productivity growth in the production of old products are large …

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Do Shorter Product Cycles Induce Patent Thickets?

Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

The traditional argument that shorter product cycles favor trade secret over patenting is reviewed. A game theoretic model provides an argument that shorter product cycles can induce firms to file more patent applications. The firms may be trapped in a prisoners' dilemma where all firms would...

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Do Ukrainian Firms Benefit from FDI?

Talavera, Oleksandr; Lutz, Stefan H. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

decrease of labor productivity at domestic firms, which is a negative effect. The main purpose of this paper is to estimate …, where the latter is estimated alternatively as labor productivity and as exports. FDI notably increases both labor … productivity and export volumes. Second, we look for spillover or indirect effects. There is statistical evidence that the levels …

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The effects of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines

Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

What happens to demand if a magazine launches a website? This question is empirically analyzed for the German women?s magazine market, a particularly large segment of the German magazine where fierce competition is reigning. Models for differentiated product demand are estimated on panel data...

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Fishing for complementarities: Competitive research funding and research productivity

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper empirically investigates complementarities between different sources of research funding with regard to academic publishing. We find for a sample of UK engineering academics that competitive funding is associated with an increase in ex-post publications but that industry funding...

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Which form of venture capital is most supportive of innovation?

Bertoni, Fabio; Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Although there seems to be consensus in the literature that venture capital investors increase the innovation output of their portfolio companies, there is little evidence about how investor type (governmental vs. private) and transaction structure (syndicated vs. non-syndicated) moderate this...

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Innovation, competition and incentives for R&D

Wörter, Martin; Rammer, Christian; Arvanitis, Spyros - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on...

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