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Heterogeneous regional university funding and firm innovation : an empirical analysis of the German excellence initiative
Krieger, Bastian - 2023
This paper estimates the effect of heterogeneous university funding stemming from the German Excellence Initiative on a regional firm’s probability to innovate by using a multi-valued two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model. The estimations show that funding an additional...
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Profit taxation, R&D spending, and innovation
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; … - 2021
We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel …
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Financial constraints for R&D and innovation : new evidence from a survey experiment
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Giebel, Marek - 2021
at the intensive margin, i.e. our results do not suggest that non-innovative companies are deterred from innovation …
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Precocious inventors : early patenting success and lifetime inventive performance
Michlbauer, Theresa; Zwick, Thomas - 2021
This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked with survey data that provide information on an extensive...
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High-tech left behind? : lessons from the Ruhr cybersecurity ecosystem for approaches to develop "left behind" places
Butzin, Anna; Flögel, Franz - 2022
economy, community-based social innovation and well-being. While supporting this emphasis, we see a tendency to neglect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209571
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Measuring process innovation output : results from firm-level panel data
Rammer, Christian - 2022
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 process innovation output that have been collected in the German part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816564
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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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Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation : evidence from firm-level data
Rammer, Christian; Fernández, Gastón P.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2021 - This version: March 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to … new business models. This paper analyses the extent to which the use of AI contributes to the innovation performance of … firms. Based on firm-level data from the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2018, we examine the …
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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 …
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Measuring the spillovers of venture capital
Schnitzer, Monika; Watzinger, Martin - 2017
We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of established companies. Spillover effects are larger...
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