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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097945
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568594
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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability
Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their organizational processes and structures. Starting from complexity theory, we use three consecutive waves of the German part of the Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957583
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The impact of public basic research on industrial innovation: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry
Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
While most economists believe that public scientific research fuels industry innovation and economic growth, systematic evidence supporting this relationship is surprisingly limited. In a recent study, Acemoglu and Linn (2004) identified market size as a significant driver of drug innovation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369495
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Fit and complementarity: cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of co-operative R&D projects' outcomes in Europe
Zibell, Laurent; Allen, Peter M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This article considers cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of concrete outcomes in co-operative Research and Development projects. The operationalisation is based upon a dedicated survey, answered by matched pairs of projects managers in partnering organisations, addressing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500713
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The design paradox: the contribution of in-house and external design activities on product market performance
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This paper explores the contribution of design activities on product market performance of Belgian companies. While there is mounting evidence that design can be seen as a strategic tool to successfully spur sales of new product developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479051
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The Effect of Entry on R&D Investment of Leaders: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Etro, Federico Gabriele; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
We develop a simple model of competition for the market that shows that, contrary to the Arrow view, endogenous entry threat in a market induces the average firm to invest less in R&D and the incumbent leader to invest more. We test these predictions with a Tobit model based on a unique dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097509
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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097593
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Innovation Success of Non-R&D-Performers: Substituting Technology by Management in SMEs
Spielkamp, Alfred; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating successful innovations, inhouse R&D activities may be a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097673
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Does Public Scientific Research Complement Industry R&D Investment? The Case of NIH Supported Basic and Clinical Research and Pharmaceutical Industry R&D
Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This research investigates the hypothesis that publicly funded scientific research complements private R&D investment in the pharmaceutical industry. New microlevel data on public research investment by the U.S. National Institutes of Health allow measures of basic and clinical research in seven...
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