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Flying the nest : how the home department shapes researchers' career paths

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - 2014

Academic researchers face mobility related decisions throughout their careers. We study the importance of team and organisational characteristics of the home departments for career choices of departing researchers in the fields of science and engineering at higher education institutions in...

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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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Quantity or quality? : knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2013 - This version: December 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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Flying the nest : how the home department shapes researchers' career paths

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - 2015 - First version July 2014

This paper studies the importance of the socialization environment - nest - for the career destinations of early career researchers. In a sample of research groups in the fields of science and engineering at universities in Germany, we identify research orientation, output, funding as well as...

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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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