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Global technology cycles and local economic performance

Heinrich, Sebastian; Sarferaz, Samad; Wörter, Martin - 2023

This paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-specific factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and...

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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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Employment effect of innovation

Kancs, D'Artis; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2017

The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro-econometric analysis is based on a large international panel data set from the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. Employing flexible semi-parametric methods - the generalised...

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Development and utilization of energy-related technologies, economic performance and the role of policy instruments

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Peneder, Michael; Rammer, Christian; … - 2016

-related technologies on labour productivity and a positive indirect effect of energy taxes via investment in energyrelated technologies. We … find neither direct nor indirect effects of product innovation in energyrelated products on labour productivity. No …

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The (anti-)competitive effect of intellectual property rights

Peneder, Michael; Thompson, Mark; Wörter, Martin - 2019

We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a large sample of Swiss firms. We find that better appropriability conditions at the industry level raise the number of competitors. However, conditional on the given...

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Technology diversification, product innovations, and technology transfer

Wörter, Martin - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between technology specialization and innovation performance of firms emphasizing technology transfer activities with universities as an important knowledge source in order to attenuate the opportunity costs of technological specialization. Based on an...

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Factors determining the adoption of energy-saving technologies in Swiss firms : an analysis based on micro data

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Ley, Marius - 2010

This study investigates the factors that determine the inter-firm and intra-firm adoption rates of energy-saving technologies. These factors can be on theoretical terms firm-specific rank effects, inducement effects, adoption barriers as well as order, stock and epidemic effects that are related...

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Deriving technology indicators from corporate websites : a comparative assessment using patents

Heinrich, Sebastian - 2023

This paper investigates the potential of indicators derived from corporate websites to measure technology related concepts. Using artificial intelligence (AI) technology as a case in point, I construct a 24-year panel combining the texts of websites and patent portfolios for over 1,000 large...

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R&D races and spillovers between the EU and the US : some causal evidence

Atukeren, Erdal (contributor) - 2005

relative shares in the world market for high tech exports. -- R&D races ; productivity spillovers ; direct Granger … labour productivity in the home and foreign country. As a novelty, we employ the subset transfer function methodology to … that R&D activity in the EU is a direct Granger-cause of both R&D and labour productivity in the US, and the effects are …

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Did the reduction of ICT investment due to the 2008 economic crisis affect the innovation performance of firms? : an exploratory analysis based on firm data for the European glass,...

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Loukis, Euripidis N. - 2015

In this paper we investigate empirically, first, the characteristics of the firms that reduced their ICT investment due to the 2008 crisis, particularly the firms' ICT-related characteristics in terms of ICT budget, skills and applications used. The analysis of the ICT characteristics that may...

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