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Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022

new ways of production that may increase productivity. So far, however, only very few studies investigated likely … productivity effects of AI at the firm-level; presumably because of lacking data. We exploit unique survey data on firms’ adoption … of AI technology and estimate its productivity effects with a sample of German firms. We employ both a cross …

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Technology transfer and the Internet : a chance for outsiders at public science to get into the business?

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2001

The Internet is receiving increasing attention as a medium for technology transfer between public research and the enterprise sector. Based on a survey of public research units in natural sciences and engineering in Germany, we analyse the determinants of firm contacts established via the...

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Financial constraints for R&D and innovation : new evidence from a survey experiment

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Giebel, Marek - 2021

We utilize a new survey experiment to evaluate the existence and degree of financial constraints for R&D in the economy. The experiment does not only allow to deduct the presence of financial constraints, but also to evaluate their economic significance. Using data on German companies, we find...

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Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation : evidence from firm-level data

Rammer, Christian; Fernández, Gastón P.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2021 - This version: March 2021

world-first product innovations in these firms of about €16 billion, which corresponds to 18% of total sales of world …-first innovations in the German business sector. Firms that developed AI by combining in-house and external resources obtained …

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Haftungsregeln und Innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2000

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity involves risk. On the one hand, the risk of firm owners is limited if their liability is limited. On the other hand credits will be more difficult to receive if liability is limited....

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An empirical test of the asymmetric models on innovative activity : who invests more into R&D - the incumbent or the challenger?

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2000

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....

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Management control and innovative activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2000

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...

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Pandemic effects : do innovation activities of firms suffer from long-Covid?

Trunschke, Markus; Peters, Bettina; Czarnitzki, Dirk; … - 2023 - This version: 2.6.2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected firms in many economies. Exploiting treatment heterogeneity, we use a difference-in-differences design to causally identify the short-run impact of COVID-19 on innovation spending in 2020 and expected innovation spending in subsequent years. Based on a...

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Information leakage, imitation, and the patent system

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2021 - This version: August 2021

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 from negative externalities, i.e. spillovers to other...

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Extent and evolution of the productivity gap in Eastern Germany

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2003

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