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An examination of the intertemporal returns of patented inventions
Giummo, Jesse - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 8, pp. 1312-1319
This paper examines the intertemporal returns of patented inventions using estimates of patent value obtained from German employee inventors’ compensation records. The paper finds heterogeneity in the mean age and dispersion of the annual returns by technology and cumulative patent value....
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Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms
Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 1, pp. 214-232
This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The … between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign-owned firms experience higher … job losses than domestically owned firms. At the same time, employment-creating effects of product innovation are larger …
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Sources of spillovers for imitation and innovation
Cappelli, Riccardo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 1, pp. 115-120
market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while input from customers and research … institutions enhance original innovation. …
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Innovation strategy, firm survival and relocation: The case of Hong Kong-owned manufacturing in Guangdong Province, China
Sharif, Naubahar; Huang, Can - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 1, pp. 69-78
Based on a survey adapted from the Fourth European Community Innovation Survey (CIS-4), this study finds that, in the … new product sales as a percentage of total sales or engage in R&D or collaborative innovation activities in China are more … likely to survive and remain in Guangdong. The study fills a gap in the literature by investigating the effects of innovation …
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The temporal trajectories of innovative search: Insights from public hospital services
Salge, Torsten Oliver - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 4, pp. 720-733
This article explores the temporal trajectories of innovative search. Drawing on conceptual ideas from the behavioural theory of the firm, it proposes that the level of temporal persistence in organisations’ innovative search activities is affected by four key factors. These include (i) the...
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Access to intellectual property for innovation: Evidence on problems and coping strategies from German firms
Mueller, Elisabeth; Cockburn, Iain M.; MacGarvie, Megan - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 2, pp. 529-541
innovation. We present novel data on how frequently innovative German firms encountered problems with access to intellectual … property (IP) for their innovation activities. While a small percentage of firms reported having abandoned or not started … innovation projects because of IP issues, larger fractions reported having pursued their projects after modifying them. Using …
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Innovation across Europe: How important are institutional differences?
Barbosa, Natália; Faria, Ana Paula - In: Research Policy 40 (2011) 9, pp. 1157-1169
important role on innovation activity. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of institutional variation across … European countries in explaining differences in their innovation intensity at the industry level. We employ a novel indicator … of innovation therefore circumventing the limitations of more traditional indicators. Our results are broadly consistent …
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R&D strategies and entrepreneurial spawning
Andersson, Martin; Baltzopoulos, Apostolos; Lööf, Hans - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 1, pp. 54-68
This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. When examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies, three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...
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The impact of innovation activities on firm performance using a multi-stage model: Evidence from the Community Innovation Survey 4
Hashi, Iraj; Stojčić, Nebojša - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 2, pp. 353-366
The impact of innovation on firm performance has been a matter of significant interest to economists and policy makers … for decades. Although innovation is generally regarded as a means of improving the competitiveness of firms and their … attempts to assess the drivers of the innovation process in two different institutional settings: mature market economies of …
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Understanding innovation: An analysis of persistence for Spanish manufacturing firms
Triguero, Ángela; Córcoles, David - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 2, pp. 340-352
This study focuses on the persistence of innovation in a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 1990 …–2008. In particular, we analyse whether persistence in firms’ innovation activities over time is the result of previous … innovation (output) are highly persistent at the firm level. After controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and initial …
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