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This paper estimates the effect of heterogeneous university funding stemming from the German Excellence Initiative on a regional firm’s probability to innovate by using a multi-valued two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model. The estimations show that funding an additional...
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on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of … of received knowledge spillovers, we found no higher probability of publicly supported innovations for firms in Germany …
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innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … information flows and cooperation patterns within the innovation system of Germany. In the summary at the end of this paper we …In the following paragraphs we will discuss the 'mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems'. For …
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This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …
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representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
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This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative activities. There are opposing effects concerning R&D intensity in the manager-controlled firm. Our study on the determinants of R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning...
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unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from … the dual apprenticeship system-increase or not. In addition, estimation and data problems are addressed in a topical and … rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …
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competition and shorter windows of opportunity increase the pressure to grow rapidly to appropriate the returns from innovation …
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We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents' ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...
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This paper makes an empirical contribution to confirm the stylized fact that the performance of firms deteoriates in the years before exit. For this reason we evaluate whether market exits differ significantly in their employment development in the years before market drop-out compared to...
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