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Our research, based on the ZEW-Foundation Panel East, examines whether high-tech start-ups are mainly founded in scientific and infrastructural well suited regions or not. Estimation results on the level of postcode areas confirm the hypothesis that specific human capital, knowledge spillovers...
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evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor's gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various … results show that the gender training gap changes with age. Females obtain less training during the early career, and their … training occurs at higher age. The timing of the gender training gap seems to be driven by diverging career paths associated …
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significantly reduce the gender test score gap. A remaining gap of 14% of a standard deviation in test scores is unexplained. …
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diversity suggests positive effects of gender diverse boards on corporate governance and even firm performance. The mechanism …
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[Innovation in Chemistry & the Chemical Industry in Germany] The chemical industry is one of the key sectors in the … German innovation system. Being devoted to research and innovation, the chemical industry is leading the development and … industries build their innovative efforts. The innovation performance of the chemical industry in Germany can be demonstrated by …
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This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
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We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …
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Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...
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