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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?

Baumann, Julian - 2016

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …

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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

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Sustainable Civil-Society Engagement: Potentials of a Transnational Civil Society in French-German, Polish-German, and Czech-German Border Regions

Boehnke, Klaus; Rippl, Susanne; Fuss, Daniel - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 4078-4099

Based on representative survey data, the present study examines potentials for the sustainable development of a transnational civil society in French-German, Polish-German, and Czech-German border regions. The theoretical framework is a social capital approach in the tradition of Putnam....

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Land-Development Offset Policies in the Quest for Sustainability: What Can China Learn from Germany?

Tan, Rong; Wang, Rongyu; Sedlin, Thomas - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 6, pp. 3400-3430

Land-development offset policies consist of measures that require compensation to be made for the negative impact of land development on agricultural production, ecological and environmental conservation, and the sustainability of economic and social development. However, when such policies are...

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Regional Open Innovation Roadmapping: A New Framework for Innovation-Based Regional Development

Schwerdtner, Wim; Siebert, Rosemarie; Busse, Maria; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 3, pp. 2301-2321

innovations and their market introduction, companies have increasingly used technology roadmapping and open innovation. The … led to the rise of the “Regional Open Innovation Roadmapping” framework for innovation-based regional development (ROIR …). This framework was tested by conducting two innovation roadmapping processes in the model region of Märkisch-Oderland (MOL …

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Unraveling the Skilled Mobility for Sustainable Development Mantra: An Analysis of China-EU Academic Mobility

Leung, Maggi W.H. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 6, pp. 2644-2663

In the name of sustainable development, skilled persons including scholars, researchers and students have become incorporated in the “sustainable development” visions and strategies of institutions, city centers and nation-states near and far from where these potentially mobile brains are....

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Involving Corporate Functions: Who Contributes to Sustainable Development?

Schaltegger, Stefan; Harms, Dorli; Windolph, Sarah Elena; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 5, pp. 3064-3085

A large body of literature claims that corporate sustainable development is a cross-functional challenge, which requires all functional units to be involved. However, it remains uncertain to what extent and in which way different corporate functions are actually involved in corporate...

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The KfW/Zew Start-Up Panel : Design and Research Potential

Fryges, Helmut - 2009

So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using one-time surveys, but continuously over a number of years. Therefore, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), KfW Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of...

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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry : A Comparison between Germany and the U.S

Dyballa, Katharina - 2018

In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...

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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit

Kneiding, Christoph - 2011

This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal...

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