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Exploring the RelationshipBetween Scientist Human Capitaland Firm Performance: The Case of Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurs in the SBIR Program

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim> - 2007

knowledge through the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research Program. Our conceptual frameworkassumes the nature of an academic …

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Returns to Continuous Training in Germany:New Evidence from Propensity ScoreMatching Estimators

Muehler, Grit; Beckmann, Michael; Schauenberg, Bernd - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>; … - 2007

The present paper examines the wage effects of continuous training programs usingindividual-level data from the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). In order to accountfor selectivity in training participation we estimate average treatment effects (ATE and ATT)of general and firm-specific...

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The role of technology in M&As : a firm-level comparison of cross-border and domestic deals

Frey, Rainer; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim> - 2006

Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of mergeractivities. This paper analyzes the role of technology in mergers and acquisitions(M&As) at the firm level. Based on a newly created data set that combines financialinformation and patent data for public limited...

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International Cooperation on Innovation : Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

In this paper we investigate the factors that lead firms to cooperate withpartners from foreign countries on innovation … activities. Portuguese and Germandata from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us tocompare innovation … importance of protectionmethods for knowledge have a positive influence in both countries on thedecision to cooperate with …

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Gains and Pains from Contract Research : A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Grimpe, Christoph; Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience andopenness to external knowledge sources motivate the …

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Mitarbeiteranreizsysteme und Innovationserfolg

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

Wir diskutieren die Faktoren für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung eines Systems desbetrieblichen Vorschlagswesens und anderer Maßnahmen zur Stimulierung desInnovationserfolgs. Im Anschluss wird die Wirkung des betrieblichenVorschlagswesens auf den Innovationserfolg empirisch überprüft....

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Motives for Innovation Co-operation Evidence from theCanadian Survey of Innovation

Schmidt Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sectorto co-operate on innovation projects …. Our focus is on the motives behind this decisionand the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation … activities,which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from theCanadian Survey of Innovation 2005 we find …

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Innovationsverhalten der deutschen Wirtschaft

Aschhoff, Birgit; Doherr, Thorsten; Ebersberger, Bernd; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>; … - 2006

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