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Industrial research versus development investment : the implications of financial constraints
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2009
Previous literature provided evidence on financing constraints for investment in R&D activities due to capital market imperfections and special features of R&D investments. Moreover, it has been shown that a shift in capital structure towards more debt, results in a reduction of R&D investments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881344
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Inventions under Siege? : the impact of technology competition on licensing
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2009
In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape characterized by numerous but marginal inventions, overlapping claims and patent fences. Literature suggests that both the fragmentation of ownership and the threat of a firm's patent applications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871201
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Heterogeneity of patenting activity and its implications for scientific research
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor);  … - 2007
The increasing commercialization of university discoveries has initiated a controversy on the impacts for future scientific research. It has been argued that an increasing orientation towards commercialization may have a negative impact on more fundamental research efforts in science. Several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003479951
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Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation more money, more innovation?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - 2009
This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the idea of an ideal test as suggested by Hall (2008). Firms were offered a hypothetical payment and were asked to choose between alternatives of use. If they choose additional innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914253
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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - 2010
Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und in vielen … Beschäftigungssuche ab, denn in Deutschland können dem Arbeitslosen zu jedem Zeitpunkt Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen zugewiesen werden …. Wir evaluieren ein wichtiges Programm der beruflichen Weiterbildung in Deutschland (Förderung der beruflichen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665400
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Costs and benefits of inter-departmental innovation collaboration
Cuijpers, Maarten; Guenter, Hannes; Hussinger, Katrin - 2011
Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been identified as source of increased coordination costs. Using organizational information processing theory, this paper builds and tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901576
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R&D collaboration with uncertain intellectual property rights
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2011
Patent pendencies create uncertainty in research and development (R&D) collaboration agreements, resulting in a threat of expropriation of unprotected knowledge by potential partners, reduced bargaining power and enhanced search costs. In this paper, we show that - depending of the type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901848
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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity
Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2010
University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private sector firms increasingly seek direct access through funding public R&D. This development, however, spurred concerns about possible negative long-run effects on scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796153
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Which program for whom? : evidence on the comparative effectiveness of public sponsored training programs in Germany
Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2007
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s. Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methods in a dynamic, multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003502633
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The contribution of corporate ventures to radical innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Dick, Johannes M. H.; Hussinger, Katrin - 2010
das Mutterunternehmen. Unsere Datenbasis umfasst etwa 2.500 junge Unternehmen des verarbeitenden Gewerbes in Deutschland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008659476