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This paper investigates empirically whether the relation between finance and growth depends on a specific type of financing. I construct a novel panel data set for 34 high income countries over the time period from 1995 to 2014 based on financial accounts data. It allows distinguishing between...
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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 …
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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. …
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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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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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The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which postulates a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...
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Process innovation is an important part of firms’ innovation activities and supposed to significantly contribute to positive returns from innovation. Measuring process innovation output at the firm level is still in its infancy, however. This paper reports empirical evidence on measures of...
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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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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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