Showing 1 - 7 of 7
This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428336
This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative activities. There are opposing effects concerning R&D intensity in the manager-controlled firm. Our study on the determinants of R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428380
This study analyzes the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern … their innovation activities by about four percentage points. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428392
This paper considers the effect of different firm leadership on the innovative performance of firms from seven EU countries. We investigate whether owner-led or manager-led firms achieve a larger share of their turnover with product innovations. Economic theory does not propose clear answers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428418
The theoretical discussion concerning the question whether the incumbent or the (potential) entrant invests more into R&D has attracted considerable interest. This paper reports the results of an empirical study on this question using data of about 3500 German firms over the years 1992 to 1995....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428313
From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623469
impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding-out effects between public and private means occur. A … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428385