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ICT and the demand for energy: Evidence from OECD countries
Rexhaeuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick; Welsch, Heinz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper analyzes the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and energy demand. We construct a comprehensive cross-country cross-industry panel data set covering 13 years, 10 OECD countries, and 27 industries. Using up to 2889 country-industry observations, we find...
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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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Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size
Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
combining IT and decentralized work organization seems to be a successful strategy only for larger firms. …
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Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions induced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the parameter estimates of the Multinomial Logit and of several Multinomial Probit Models, we show that we have to distinguish between the factors that have an impact on employment...
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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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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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Does social software increase labour productivity?
Sarbu, Miruna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
applications can be used for external communication as well as knowledge management enabling firms to access internal and external … knowledge. Firms can optimize customer relationship management, marketing and market research as well as project management and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957696
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Mobile and more productive? Firm-level evidence on the productivity effects of mobile internet use at the early stage of diffusion
Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether … employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set comprises 2460 German firms and … refers to the year 2010, when mobile internet started its diffusion process to firms on a large scale. The econometric …
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Do first mover advantages for producers of energy efficient appliances exist? The case of refrigerators
Cleff, Thomas; Rennings, Klaus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
strategy with low prices can be successful. Especially in the case when the price of electricity and the national income are … low. Markets for such products are for example in Asia and Russia. Producers use the existence of both strategy options to …
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A look at both sides of the coin: Investigating the protective and the disclosure effect of patenting
Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra K. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of the two basic effects of patenting: the positive effect of temporarily mitigating competition, and the negative effect of mandatory disclosure of a patent application. Providing empirical evidence for the presented theoretical...
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