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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035179
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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries
Harrison, Rupert - 2008
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464431
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Innovation and Productivity across Four European Countries
Griffith, Rachel - 2006
This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465938
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Recent Research on the Economics of Patents
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460887
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Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength
Peters, Bettina - 2016
This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456639
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Filling the Gap : The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D
Poege, Felix; Gaessler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022
We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...
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