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The Nature of Innovation Channels at the Micro-Level : Evidence from Russian Manufacturing Firms

Simachev, Yuri; Kuzyk, Mikhail; Feygina, Vera - 2013

The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...

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Patents as Collateral

Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Bruno, Amable - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....

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Does innovation matter for Chinese hightech exports? a firm-level analysis

Fu, Dahai; Wu, Yanrui; Tang, Yihong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper analyzes the role of innovation activities in the export participation of Chinese high-tech firms during the period of 2005-2007. Using a parametric, instrumental variable approach and a non-parametric matching method, we find that firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D and...

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Measures of Science & Technology in Ecuador

José Luis, Massón-Guerra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

One of the structural problems in Latin-American has been the lower innovative capacity and lower generation of economically exploitable knowledge. This phenomenon has been produced by the absence of government’s incentives and strategies in order to be competitive inside the Knowledge Based...

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Product-market competition, corporate governance and innovation: evidence on US-listed firms

Hashem, Nawar; Ugur, Mehmet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently, corporate governance quality has emerged as an additional factor that may complement or substitute for competition’s effect on innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by...

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Information Acquisition and Innovation under Competitive Pressure

Barbos, Andrei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper studies information acquisition under competitive pressure and proposes a model to examine the relationship between product market competition and the level of innovative activity in an industry. Recent empirical papers point to an inverted-U shape relationship between competition and...

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Micro evidence for sources of innovation in European countries

Piacentino, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper investigates sources of product or process innovation, such as investments in research and development, machinery, personnel training and management systems, by examining microdata from eight European countries. We pay particular attention to the effect of research and development in...

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Innovation activity and nancing constraints: evidence from Italy during the crises.

Brancati, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Financial frictions may represent a severe obstacle for firms' innovative activity. This paper shows the existence and quantifies the effect of binding financial constraints on the innovation propensity of Italian companies. Once provided a rich baseline specification for innovation, I analyze...

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Evaluation of Small Business Innovation Research Programs in Japan

Inoue, Hiroyasu; Yamaguchi, Eiichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

has played an important role in the United States in subsidization providing two billion dollars every year. Japan started … its own SBIR program inspired by that in the United States. This paper examines the direct effects of Japan's SBIR program …, it seems that the direct effect of Japan's SBIR program has not produced positive results. However, it did increase the …

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