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The participation of women in top-level corporate boards (or rather the lack of it) is subject to intense public debate. Several countries are considering legally binding quotas to increase the share of women on boards. Indeed, research on board diversity suggests positive effects of gender...
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recipients' investment is less sensitive to internal liquidity. -- Research and development ; liquidity constraints ; innovation …
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This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the idea of an … alternatives of use. If they choose additional innovation projects they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing, but also to firms' innovative capability. Econometric …
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&D Collaboration ; Knowledge Exchange ; Patents ; Innovation ; Count Data Models … new knowledge and alliances that aim at exchange of existing knowledge, the results suggest that the positive effect on … patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive …
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This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of … alternatives of use. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … that were not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking …
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costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … monitoring, requires knowledge disclosure and involves the risk of opportunistic behaviour by the partners. Thus, while the net … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher …
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innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …
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This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new technologies if complementary organisational changes...
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