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-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generate similar innovation success compared to …
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influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge management cycles, we … management techniques and their influence on product and process innovation. The ability to source external knowledge positively … the tools of knowledge management in function of the kind of technical innovation it wants to proceed. -- Knowledge …
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; innovation ; environmental innovation ; organizational change ; productivity …
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product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in …
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refers to the early phase of DSL expansion in Germany from 2001 to 2003, when roughly 60 percent of the German firms already … used broadband Internet. Identification relies on instrumental variable estimation taking advantage of information on the … productivity whereas it exhibits a positive and significant impact on their innovation activity. -- Labour productivity …
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This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affcts its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from its...
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innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … information flows and cooperation patterns within the innovation system of Germany. In the summary at the end of this paper we …In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For …
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Using firm-level data from the German manufacturing sector, we estimate a dynamic, structural model of the firm’s decision to invest in R&D and quantify the cost and longrun benefit of this investment. The model incorporates and quantifies linkages between the firm’s R&D investment, product...
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firms' R&D intensities. -- Open Source ; Information and Communication Technologies ; R&D Incentives ; Innovation ; Firm …
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We examine the determinants of product, process, and organizational innovation, and their impact on firm labor … productivity using data from a unique innovation survey of firms in Pakistan. We find significant heterogeneity in the impact of … different innovations on labor productivity: Organizational innovation has the largest effect followed by process innovation …
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