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The economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet : a survey

Bertschek, Irene; Briglauer, Wolfgang; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 2016

We provide a structured overview of the quantitative literature on the economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and broadband adoption, respectively, we review studies...

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Technological capabilities, technological dynamism and innovation offshoring

Schubert, Torben; Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian - 2016

tends to drive innovation offshoring, high uncertainty about future technology developments results in more innovation … offshoring only for firms with low internal technological capabilities. Firms with high technological capabilities instead are … less likely to offshore innovation when uncertainty is high. We argue that these differences in offshoring behaviour …

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Der Mindestlohn im Dachdeckerhandwerk : Auswirkungen auf Beschäftigung, Arbeitnehmerschutz und Wettbewerb

Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Rammer, … - 2012

Der seit 1997 im Dachdeckerhandwerk eingeführte und seit 2003 bundeseinheitlich geregelte, allgemeinverbindliche Mindestlohn führt vor allem in Ostdeutschland auch im internationalen Vergleich zu einer starken Betroffenheit der Branche vom Mindestlohn. Die damit einhergehende effektive...

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Increasing energy and resource efficiency through innovation : an explorative analysis using innovation survey data

Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2009

Energy and resource efficiency innovations (EREIs) are often seen as win-win opportunities for both the economic and the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do...

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Does energy policy hurt international competitiveness of firms? : a comparative study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra; Peneder, Michael; … - 2016

-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …

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Determinants of eco-innovations by type of environmental impact : the role of regulatory push/pull, technology push and market pull

Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian; Rennings, Klaus - 2011

Empirical analyses of the determinants of environmental innovations were rarely able to distinguish between different areas of environmental impacts. The paper tries to close this gap by employing a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The...

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Microgeography of innovation in the city : location patterns of innovative firms in Berlin

Rammer, Christian; Kinne, Jan; Blind, Knut - 2016

This paper investigates the micro-location pattern of innovative and non-innovative firms in Berlin using detailed information on the firms' addresses and their local environment. The study employs a unique, representative panel data set of Berlin-based firms from manufacturing and services...

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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance

Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015

Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their careers. We combine survey information spanning the...

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University spinoffs and the “performance premium”

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - 2013

The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and technologies from research organizations to the private sector for commercialization. In the promotion process, policymakers typically treat these “university” spinoffs like industry...

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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2014

This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...

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