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Global Sensing and Sensibility: A Multi-Stage Matching Assessment of Competitive Advantage from Foreign Sources of Innovation

Teichert, Thorsten; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2006

We focus on one of the core competitive capabilities of modern firms: the ability to deliver successful innovations in a globalized environment. Companies literally find themselves confronted with a world of ideas. The challenge remains to decide which impulses should be on top of the list and...

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Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany

Aschhoff, Birgit - 2008

The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of state subsidies, in terms of input or output additionality. This analysis goes one important step further than the existing literature by including the time...

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The effect of subsidies on R&D investment and success: do subsidy history and size matter?

Aschhoff, Birgit - 2009

This study provides insights into the effects of public R&D grants on R&D input and output of firms from Germany …

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Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany

Aschhoff, Birgit - 2009

This paper looks at which firms receive R&D project grants and how this public support evolves over time by considering in particular firm's previous participation. The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of...

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Structural properties of cooperation networks in Germany: From basic to applied research

Brökel, Tom; Graf, Holger - 2010

industries. The study is based on a new data source on subsidized R&D cooperation in Germany, which is presented in detail and …

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Competing internationally: On the importance of R&D for export activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - 2010

Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as … Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of … R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level data. To control for reverse causality, R&D-subsidy variables are …

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Regional dimensions of liability of foreignness: between a rock and a hard place?

Sofka, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Jörg - 2007

In this paper we develop optimized localization strategies for multinational firms to over-come their liability of foreignness by adding a regional dimension. We explore concep-tually whether economic stress in a region has a mitigating or reinforcing effect. We test his analytical framework...

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R&D subsidies to start-ups: Effective drivers of patent activity and employment growth?

Cantner, Uwe; Kösters, Sarah - 2009

The present paper investigates the effectiveness of R&D subsidies given to start-ups. Taking an aggregate view rather than evaluating a single program, we estimate the impact of R&D subsidies on start-ups' employment growth and their patent output. A unique data set on start-ups in the East...

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Intermediation, reciprocity and compatibility in regional innovation systems: an interregional comparison

Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas; Wolf, Tina - 2008

This paper investigates the possible presence of three problems in regional innovation systems (RIS): intermediation, reciprocity and compatibility. Based on firm data gathered for three different regions, Northern Hesse, Jena and Sophia Antipolis, we can show that a low propensity to cooperate...

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Publicly Funded R&D Collaborations and Patent Outcome in Germany

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - 2003

examines the development and the impact of publicly funded R&D consortia in Germany. The paper describes the history of R …&D funding in Germany with a focus on the development of measures encouraging collaborative R&D activities among firms and public …

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