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Microfinance institutions (MFIs) target poor people, excluded from the banking system. By giving them starting capital, they should thus enable a greater number of women to create their own business, but also in sectors traditionally reserved for men due to the initial capital they require. Our...
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The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...
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that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
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We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and … highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the innovation. We characterize the equilibrium behavior, outcomes and …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …
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Substantial elements of innovation have been observable during recent years in rig supply, in particular regarding …
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This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …
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Wie könnte ein zukunftsfähiges Energieversorgungssystem aussehen und welche Bedeutung hat dabei das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz? Prof. Dr. Rainer Frank Elsässer, E.ON AG, vermisst u.a. die europäische Perspektive. Für Bernhard Hillebrand, EEFA, Münster, und Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ströbele,...
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Während im Ausland in der forschungs- und technologiepolitischen Beratung repräsentative oder paritätische Gremien überwiegen, sind in Deutschland die Erfahrungen mit derartigen Institutionen nicht ermutigend. Ihre Arbeit scheiterte häufig an der mangelnden Konsensbereitschaft und der...
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