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Patents as quality signals? The implications for financing constraints on R&D

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014

Information about the success of a new technology is usually held asymmetrically between the research and development (R&D)-performing firm and potential lenders and investors. This raises the cost of capital for financing R&D externally, resulting in financing constraints on R&D especially for...

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Quantity or quality? Knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - 2013

This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2009 that knowledge alliances have a positive effect on patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. However, when distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and...

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Policy-induced environmental technology and inventive efforts: Is there a crowding out?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2013

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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Working from home around the world

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022

innovation. …

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Fishing for complementarities: Competitive research funding and research productivity

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - 2013

This paper empirically investigates complementarities between different sources of research funding with regard to academic publishing. We find for a sample of UK engineering academics that competitive funding is associated with an increase in ex-post publications but that industry funding...

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Organisational change and the productivity effects of green technology adoption

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2016

This study investigates induced productivity effects of firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can achieve higher productivity gains from adopting new technologies if they adapt their...

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R&D partnerships and innovation performance: Can there be too much of a good thing?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - 2014

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on … product innovation if its intensity increases above a certain threshold. In particular, costs start outweighing benefits if a …

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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...

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