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Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D: An Introduction Based on the European Experience
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876571
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Drivers and impacts in the globalization of corporate R&D: An introduction based on the European experience
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2011
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278539
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Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea
Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … firms designated as innovative SMEs by the government are not performing differently than general firms. Only the CEO … considered to actively promote SMEs innovativeness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143944
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Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Isphording, Ingo E.; … - 2021
We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the municipal business tax rate over the period 1987–2013 for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882406
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Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of 'Bottom-up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach – soliciting a particular technology – or a bottom-up approach in which innovators suggest ideas. This paper examines a reform to the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597443
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Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea
Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - 2015
This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … firms designated as innovative SMEs by the government are not performing differently than general firms. Only the CEO … considered to actively promote SMEs innovativeness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481684
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653434
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Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822810
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Why do foreign-owned-firms pay more? The role of on-the-job training
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2002
Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265544
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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Zhou, Ying - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884118