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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment: An Empirical Investigation

Keilbach, Max; Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098256

Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985629

The Link Between Firms? Innovation Decision and the Business Cycle: An Empirical Analysis

Heger, Diana - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

The sensitivity of innovation activities with respect to the business cycle is often assumed to be small. In this paper … the hypothesis on cyclical dependence of innovation activities is tested for firms in the German manufacturing, and … additionally for SMEs. To this end firms? innovation decisions are considered. The decision to innovate in one period is modelled …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097512

Durable Goods, Innovation and Network Externalities

Cerquera Dussán, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

We develop a model of R&D competition between an incumbent and a potential entrant with network externalities and durable goods. We show that the threat of entry eliminates the commitment problem that an incumbent may face in its R&D decision due to the goods? durability. Moreover, a potential...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097721

R&D incentives, compatibility and network externalities

Cerquera Dussán, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper analyzes the impact of network externalities on R&D competition between an incumbent and a potential entrant. The analysis shows that the incumbent always invests more than the entrant in the development of higher quality network goods. However, the incumbent exhibits a too low level...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097740

Concubinage or Marriage? Informal and Formal Cooperations for Innovation

Keilbach, Max; Bönte, Werner - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

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Business services in Germany: bridges for innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially …" of technological information within the economy. They are providers, purchasers or partners in the context of innovation …. A sound innovation capacity, especially knowledge, creativity, market and management skills let them become bridges for …

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Open Source, ICT infrastructure and firm performance

Cerquera Dussán, Daniel; Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

This paper empirically studies the impact of the adoption of open source software (OSS) on firms' labor productivity and innovative behavior. Using a representative sample of German firms, the results show that the adoption of OSS operating systems for servers and general OSS applications has no...

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Which firms use trademarks - and why? Representative firm-level evidence from Germany

Crass, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...

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Evaluating the impact of public start-up assistance: results from an econometric approach

Almus, Matthias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper analyzes the medium-term growth performance of firms that exclusively received start-up assistance from programs administered by the Deutsche Ausgleichsbank (DtA), a state owned bank, within two years after startup. I apply a parametric selection approach that controls for two...

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