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R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and …. Collaboration, however, involves transaction costs in form of coordination and monitoring efforts and requires knowledge disclosure …. This study explicitly considers a firm's collaboration intensity, that is, the share of collaborative R&D projects in a …
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test whether the policy design aiming at incentivizing (international) collaboration and R&D in SMEs achieves input as well … internationally collaborating SMEs. We further evaluate the different impact of privately financed and publicly-induced R&D investment … policyinduced R&D investment on sales from market novelties is highest for international collaborators as well as for SMEs. …
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Objectives: This study investigates the relationship between prices and quality of 7,400 German nursing homes controlling for income, nursing home density, demographics, labour market characteristics, and infrastructure at the regional level. Method: We use a cross section of public quality...
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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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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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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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Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environmentally- friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms' competitiveness. Since innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a...
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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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