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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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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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Bie, Xiaodong; Ciani, Andrea - 2021

Processing trade is often a leading channel for the internationalization of firms in emerging economies and to foster their integration in Global Value Chains (GVCs). This study investigates differences in performance among Chinese exporting firms differently involved in processing trade. We...

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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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They played the merger game: A retrospective analysis in the UK videogames market

Aguzzoni, Luca; Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; … - 2013

We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry - the videogame market - which is characterized by frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in the UK, we perform a difference-in-differences analysis...

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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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Ex-post merger evaluation in the UK retail market for books

Aguzzoni, Luca; Argentesi, Elena; Ciari, Lorenzo; Duso, … - 2013

This paper empirically evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major book retail chains in the UK: Waterstone's and Ottakar's. We employ differences-in-differences techniques and use a rich dataset containing monthly scanner data information on a sample of 200 books sold in 60 stores in...

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