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Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation activities fell sharply. Innovation expenditures hence concentrate on fewer firms. In this...
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In this paper we analyze the conditions under which firms decide to offshore innovation. We consider the role of internal technological capabilities and technological dynamism in the firm environment, distinguishing speed and uncertainty of technological change. Using unique data from the German...
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Der Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit hinter der oft konstatierten Investitionsschwäche der europäischen Wirtschaft eine Strukturverschiebung von materiellen zu immateriellen Investitionen steht. Da letztere nur zum Teil unter den Investitionsbegriff der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung...
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Insgesamt gab es in Deutschland im Jahr 2008 über 72.000 Innovatoren ohne eigene FuE. Ihnen standen rund 54 … die betrachteten Jahre hinweg weitgehend stabil. Ihre Bedeutung für das Innovationsgeschehen in Deutschland ist gleichwohl … nicht vernachlässigbar. 14 % des gesamten Neuproduktumsatzes in Deutschland im Jahr 2008 und immerhin 12 % des Umsatzes mit …
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-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …
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The global economic crisis of 2008/2009 hit many firms hard. Faced with rapidly declining sales and highly uncertain economic prospects, firms had to cut costs and reconsider their business strategies. With respect to innovation, cost cutting often means to stop or underresource innovation...
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(role of regional spillover effects, the greenness of a region and the regional endowment with green energy plants). We use … a unique database combining the Community Innovation Survey 2014 for Germany and NUTS 3 data on renewable energy plants …, the greenness of a region and other economic control variables. We find that geographical proximity to electricity …
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enterprise sector. Based on a survey of public research units in natural sciences and engineering in Germany, we analyse the …
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