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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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This paper analyses the role of creative industries in affecting an economy's innovation performance. We conducted a … and the degree of creativity of the services they offer. We show that the creative industries are among the most … innovative sectors in the economy. They support innovation in a variety of other sectors through creative inputs, such as ideas …
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This study examines the effect of R&D tax credits on innovation activities of Canadian manufacturing firms. Over the … on a series of innovation indicators such as number of new products, sales with new products, originality of innovation … additional innovation output. …
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This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …
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. A sound innovation capacity, especially knowledge, creativity, market and management skills let them become bridges for …During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially … information and communication technologies, knowledge-intensive business service firms increasingly play the role of "converters …
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This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …
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The internationalisation of corporate R&D opens up the chances to participate in international knowledge sharing. This … organizational costs as well as risks of outgoing knowledge spillovers. In this paper we empirically address the question whether … Innovation Survey (CIS). The empirical results demonstrate that R&D location matters for profitability. Firms with both domestic …
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analysis rests on the German data from the Europe-wide Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We use a unique data set of about 900 … domestic innovation activities the later wave reports IP infringements. In a second analysis, the likelihood of infringements … from innovation host countries and no innovation host countries abroad is examined. Before the empirical analysis, an …
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innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …
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Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...
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