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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

question we examine empirically refers to the possibility that an economic crisis could affect innovation performance through … associated with ICT-enabled innovation performance. This is the third research question of this paper. Our study is based on firm … decreased due to the crisis. Further, statistically significant negative relationship between ICT-enabled product innovation and …

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Investigating the effects of ICT on innovation and performance of European hospitals : an exploratory study

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Loukis, Euripidis N. - 2014

innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … and estimated econometrically five equations: one for product innovation, one for process innovation and three equations … 'soft' ICT investment), as right-hand variables, while the performance equations also included the two innovation measures …

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Quantitative easing in the euro area and SMEs' access to finance : who benefits the most?

Funk, Anne Kathrin - 2018

After the global financial crisis and during the European sovereign debt crisis, bank lending to companies in the euro area slowed down dramatically bringing the economy close to a credit crunch. It was only after the start of the ECB’s quantitative easing programme in early 2015 that bank...

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

Atukeren, Erdal (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines the relationships between the R&D sector activities of the EU and the US using multivariate Granger-causality tests. The multivariate framework employed also allows us to make causal inferences about the effects of R&D activity on labour productivity in the home and foreign...

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Research and development as an initiator of fixed kapital investment

Spescha, Andrin; Wörter, Martin - 2016

, but we do not find evidence for the reverse effect. When additionally looking at innovation performance, R&D activities …

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Imitation versus innovation : what makes the difference?

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Seliger, Florian - 2014

The main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on … different types of innovating firms show that an innovation performance hierarchy exists ranking from occasional innovators …

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Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies : firm-level evidence for the DACH region

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

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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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 …

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Patterns and determinants of international activities: are SMEs different? : An empirical analysis based on firm-level data for the Swiss business sector

Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The literature on the internationalisation of firms has paid little attention to SMEs. SME-oriented studies are predominantly descriptive or illustrating theoretical arguments, and those dealing with services are mostly confined to specific industries. The paper aims at correcting some of these...

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Covid-19 financial support to small businesses in Switzerland : evaluation and outlook

Brülhart, Marius; Lalive, Rafael; Lehmann, Tobias; … - 2020

What determines small businesses' recourse to public support measures during the Covid-19 crisis? We analyse this question using a survey of 1,011 self-employed workers and small business owners in Switzerland, linked to information pre-dating the crisis. We find that "objective" measures of...

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