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Corruption and innovation: a grease or sand relationship?
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2008
This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity. Particularly with respect to the African continent that is striving to reconcile with instability and poverty, this issue seems to be of utmost importance. Using a newly available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263875
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Do firms benefit from complementarity effect in R&D and what drives their R&D strategy choices?
Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - 2014
This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435142
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Do Firms Benefit from Complementarity Effect in R&D and What Drives their R&D Strategy Choices?
Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934890
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Corruption and Innovation: A Grease or Sand relationship?
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity. Particularly with respect to the African continent that is striving to reconcile with instability and poverty, this issue seems to be of utmost importance. Using a newly available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090534
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Long-run sectoral development time series evidence for the German economy
Dietrich, Andreas; Krüger, Jens J. - 2008
In economic development, long-run structural change among the three main sectors of an economy follows a typical pattern with the primary sector (agriculture, mining) first dominating, followed by the secondary sector (manufacturing) and finally by the tertiary sector (services) in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263864
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Technology flows between sectors and its impact on large-scale firms
Antony, Jürgen; Grebel, Thomas - 2008
In this paper we highlight the importance of technology flows between sec- tors and their impact on the labor … technology diffusion on labor productivity. Fortune 500 firms serve as data base. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263867
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Does growth cause structural change, or is it the other way round?: a dynamic panel data analyses for seven OECD countries
Dietrich, Andreas - 2009
In economic development, structural change among the three main sectors of an economy accompanies with aggregate economic growth. Nevertheless the question whether economic growth causes structural change or change in the economic structure causes aggregate growth is still unanswered. To shed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266660
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The knowledge filter, entrepreneurship, and economic growth
Carlsson, Bo; Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - 2007
This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United States over the last 150 years. Accor-ding to the "new growth theory," investments in knowledge and human capital ge-nerate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271771
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ICT's wide web: a system-level analysis of ICT's industrial diffusion with algorithmic links
Prytkova, Ekaterina - 2021
This paper seeks to contribute to the understanding of diffusion patterns and relatedness withinICT as a technology … system in the EU28 region. Considering ICT as a technology system, first,I break down ICT into a set of distinct technologies … construct industry-technology links to connect industries with ICT and track ICT's diffusion over the period 1977-2020.The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629043
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Beyond trading: Knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains
Graf, Holger; Mohamed, Hoda - 2023
Does exporting intermediate goods induce learning from importers? In this paper, we examine to what extent learning from German industries can be explained by knowledge spillovers, channeled through the export of intermediate goods. Our study is based on a sample of 27 German trade partners in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014471699