Showing 1 - 10 of 24
innovation, we characterize such "radical teams" as those formed by eclectic and non-usual collaborators, and those that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451136
The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry … on supermodularity and submodularity tests for obstacles to innovation (in the present application: lack of finance … analysis highlights the two phases of the innovation process in terms of the propensity and intensity of innovation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883864
. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the … countries increased process innovation and reduced product innovation. This implies that the innovation response to labor supply …-skill intensity of firm production as well as firm size. In addition, the reduction in product innovation is lessened for firms whose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718191
We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical … improvements from learning are faster where market signals are noisier. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580632
bargaining framework within which works councils are embedded, and also by allowing for works council learning. It is reported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030687
This paper investigates the impact of the largest rail strikes in German history on intercity buses - a then newly liberalised market. Using unique booking data of bus services, we exploit variation in rail service cancellations across routes to show that the disruption in rail transport...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292134
Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249680
promotion. In this paper, we assess one popular justification for feed-in tariffs, i.e., induced innovation as a positive … spillover externality. Based on regressions with a time-technology fixed effect negative binomial model, we find that innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252146
We develop a simple theoretical model of a long term buyer-supplier relationship with non-contractible buyer specific R&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement strategies. We address these issues empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485523
Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … exogenous to firms export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402447