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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?

Harhoff, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the … time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to … account, but a significant positive relationship between cash flow and investment remains for relatively small firms. In the …

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Is Temporary Employment a Stepping Stone for Unemployed School Leavers?

Verhofstadt, Elsy; Goebel, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

Many school-leavers enter the labour market via temporary employment. In this paper we investigate the impact of a … temporary employment spell at the start of the career on the transition rate into permanent employment. We compare the case of … temporary employment to the hypothetical case of a direct transition from unemployment to permanent employment. In order to …

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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...

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The impact of R&D subsidies during the crisis

Hud, Martin; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This study investigates the impact of R&D subsidies on R&D investment during the past financial crisis. We conduct a … by a different innovation investment behavior of the subsidy recipients. We do not find support for the countercyclical …

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Selection bias in innovation studies: A simple test

De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Wastyn, Annelies - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

The study of the innovative output of firms often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of reference such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all firms file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a selection bias. Using a novel dataset of the whole...

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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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(International) R&D collaboration and SMEs: The effectiveness of targeted public R&D support schemes

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This study analyses the effectiveness of targeted public support for R&D investment. In particular, we test whether the … privately financed R&D and subsidyinduced R&D investment to evaluate their respective effects on innovation performance. The …&D investments trigger significant output effects, we find that the effect of subsidy-induced R&D investment is higher for firms that …

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Industry-science connections in agriculture: Do public science collaborations and knowledge flows contribute to firm-level agricultural research productivity?

Toole, Andrew A.; King, John L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Prior research shows long-run productivity growth in agriculture is associated with increases in the stock of public scientific knowledge and private patented inventions. However, private inventions may be a function of the stock of public knowledge. In this paper, we examine the possibility...

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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

pharmaceutical drug discovery. The analysis also finds a positive return to public investment in basic biomedical research. …

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Competing internationally: On the importance of R&D for export activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level...

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