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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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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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Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

Belitski, Maksim; Günther, Christina; Kritikos, Alexander - 2022

The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on...

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German Financial State Aid During COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact Among Digitalized Self-Employed

Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a 50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact...

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Growing Out of the Crisis : Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Herrmann, Benedikt - 2013

innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …

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Firm Size and Innovation in the Service Sector

Audretsch, David B. - 2019

for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

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