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We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …
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Recent studies in the tradition of Schmookler have re-emphasised the potential role of demand in stimulating innovation …. Here, we reconsider the role of "home" and "export" market demand in stimulating manufacturing innovation using comparable … innovation production functions using panel data estimators over the sample period 1994 to 2005. For a range of innovation …
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innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across … regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation …, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, R&D intensity, and product innovation …
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This paper analyzes the impact of technological diversity on innovation inputs and success using Swiss firm-level panel … applications as suggested by the literature. However, since patent applications reflect an intermediate innovation input rather …
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, but we do not find evidence for the reverse effect. When additionally looking at innovation performance, R&D activities …
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For a large sample of enterprises in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the "DACH"region) we study the impact of various policy instruments, such as energy related taxes, subsidies, regulations and standards or negotiated agreements on the firm's ecological and economic performance. To identify...
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This paper investigates the relationship between technology specialization and innovation performance of firms … innovative products. Following the "technology trajectory (path)" increases the probability of an above average innovation … detect a significant positive relationship between the combined effect (transfer and specialization) and the innovation …
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In this paper we demonstrate the complexity that regulates the innovation-exports nexus. In particular we argue that … innovation and exports should be treated as latent variables in order to account for as many facets possible thus, accounting for … multifaceted heterogeneity. In this context, the role of innovation openness ought to be highlighted within a unified framework, as …
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'relevant' firms. Our empirical results indeed show that the measure performs better than the standard measure in an innovation … and significant impact on innovation success. However, the knowledge spillovers appear to be localized: Spillovers from … particularly Switzerland itself. Moreover, the spillover effect on innovation performance decreases with increasing number of …
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This paper investigates how the macroeconomic business cycle impacts the empirical relation between firms' innovations and their sales growth rates. Based on firm-level panel data over the time period 1995-2014, the paper finds no visible sales growth differentials between firms in booming...
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