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Markets for technology in Europe : mapping demand and its drivers

Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang; Schulz, Philipp; … - 2019

Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … activities in an economy. However, markets for technology are often underdeveloped or inefficient. Existing theory attributes … structural forces that shape the demand side of markets for technology. In this study, we reason that demand depends on the …

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Competition and incentives

Schmidt, Klaus M.; Fey, Lisa Magdalena; Thoma, Carmen - 2017 - This version: April 27, 2017

We report on two experiments that identify non-monetary incentive effects of competition. As the number of competitors increases, monetary incentives to engage in cost reduction tend to decrease. We test the hypothesis that there are non-monetary incentive effects of competition going in the...

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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1996

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to cash flow for relatively small firms. Much of this...

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A global decline in research productivity? : evidence from China and Germany

Boeing, Philipp; Hünermund, Paul - 2020

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U.S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and Germany, using detailed firm-level data spanning three decades. Our results indicate that...

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