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Public procurement as an innovation policy : where do we stand?
Chiappinelli, Olga; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Spagnolo, … - 2023
Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To what extent has this potential been realized so far? What can be done to improve the performance of PPI in this regard? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature...
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The transmission of sectoral shocks across the innovation network
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Pu, Zhaoxin - 2020
Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries and technology fields in an economy. Industrial and trade policies, by contrast, tend to favor economic specialization through the promotion of selected sectors. In this paper...
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Subsidies and innovation in the recent financial crisis
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2021
We analyze the impact of subsidies on R&D expenditures in the financial crisis and beyond. The financial crisis has led to considerable turmoil in financing and, as a result, to restrictions of firms' access to external financing. Utilizing this fact, we identify and analyze financing...
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Public research and industrial innovations in Germany
Beise, Marian; Stahl, Harald - 1998
on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of … innovating firms introduced innovations between 1993 and 1995 that would not have been developed without public research. These … ability to absorb the findings of public research and turn them into innovations. Contrary to the widely held opinion that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428175
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Mapping innovative clusters in national innovation systems
Spielkamp, Alfred; Vopel, Katrin - 1998
innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … knowledge into innovations that bring economic success. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428185
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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services: an empirical assesssment of alternative approaches
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999
In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...
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Public procurement can hinder innovation
Krieger, Bastian; Pruefer, Malte; Strecke, Linus - 2024 - This version: February 2024
their price - on firm innovations have been largely neglected, even though it represents the majority of all tenders. We … innovations on the one hand, and increases firms' focus on their established products and services on the other hand. These …
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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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Trade in services and innovation
Krieger, Bastian; Trottner, Fabian - 2024
We study the implications of services trade for firm innovation. Using a quasi-experimental shift-share design, we find that access to foreign knowledge-related services improves the innovativeness of domestic firms and complements their indigenously sourced R&D. To confront this evidence, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048739
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Bargaining failure and freedom to operate : re-evaluating the effect of patents on cumulative innovation
Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the patent universe in its technological and economic variety. We introduce a novel instrumental variable for patent invalidation that exploits personnel scarcity in post-grant...
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