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The R-word index for Switzerland

Iselin, David; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2012

In a pioneering attempt we present the R(ecession)-word index for Switzerland. We evaluate its predictive ability of …

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The R-Word Index for Switzerland

Iselin, David - 2012

In this study we construct the R(ecession)-word index for Switzerland. To the best of our knowledge, this has never …

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Using newspapers for tracking the business cycle: A comparative study for Germany and Switzerland

Iselin, David; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2013

constructed for Germany and Switzerland. We use these indices in order to track the business cycle dynamics in these two countries … Switzerland. Third, we show that the RWI-based forecasts are more accurate than the consensus forecasts (published by Consensus … Economics Inc.) for Switzerland, whereas we reach the opposite conclusion for Germany. In fact, the accuracy of the consensus …

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Is there any impact of university-industry knowledge transfer on the performance of private enterprises? An empirical analysis based on Swiss firm data

Arvanitis, Spyros; Sydow, Nora; Wörter, Martin - 2005

This study investigates the impacts of a palette of Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT) activities (general information, educational and research activities, activities related with technical infrastructure, and consulting) (a) on several innovation indicators (a1) in the framework of an...

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Driving forces for research and development strategies: An empirical analysis based on firm-level panel data

Wörter, Martin - 2007

This paper investigates empirically different ways to organize R&D within Swiss firms. Based on a longitudinal data set comprising three cross-sections (1999, 2002, and 2005) of the Swiss innovation survey, four different types of R&D strategies were identified: firms combine in-house R&D with...

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Innovation, competition and incentives for R&D

Wörter, Martin; Rammer, Christian; Arvanitis, Spyros - 2010

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Industry diversity and its impact on the innovation performance of firms: An empirical analysis based on firm-level panel data

Wörter, Martin - 2007

This paper investigates empirically the impact of diversity on the innovation performance of a firm. We created a measure for diversity that mirrors differences in the resource base of firms within an industry and tested its impact on innovation in addition to more traditional factors like...

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Exploration or exploitation of knowledge from universities: Does it make a difference?

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Wörter, Martin - 2012

In a first step, we developed based on existing theoretical and empirical literature a series of hypotheses with respect to the relative importance of possible determinants of exploration and exploitation of knowledge in collaboration with universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a...

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Impact of external knowledge acquisition strategies on innovation: A comparative study based on Dutch and Swiss panel data

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre; … - 2013

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, buy and cooperate, on firm's product innovation performance. Taking a direct (productivity) approach, we test for...

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Technological diversification and innovation performance

Bolli, Thomas; Wörter, Martin - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of technological diversity on innovation inputs and success using Swiss firm-level panel data. While we do not find any impact of diversity on R&D intensity, we confirm a positive impact of diversity on patent applications as suggested by the literature. However,...

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