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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs
Rammer, Christian; Schmiele, Anja - 2008
This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle … qualified labour expels production of new products. R&D activities abroad and exports of new products spur firm growth in the …
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Patent Protection, Market Uncertainty, and R&D Investment
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008
The real options investment theory shows that greater uncertainty about market revenues reduces current Ramp;D investment by increasing the value of waiting. This paper presents empirical evidence that patent protection mitigates the effect market uncertainty on Ramp;D investment
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726942
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Persistence of Innovation : Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2008
This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at the firm-level to a very large extent. Using a dynamic...
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Energy Transition in Germany and Regional Spillovers : What Triggers the Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Firms?
Horbach, Jens - 2017
The success of an energy turnaround towards renewables highly depends on the willingness and ability of firms to adopt energy technologies using renewable sources. Existing studies focused on the role of regulation and energy markets (e.g. the price for fossil energy) to explain the diffusion of...
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Capital Control, Debt Financing and Innovative Activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014
The present paper first discusses theoretically the different incentives of manager- versus owner-controlled firms for investment into innovative activity. In addition, the role of debt financing is analyzed. Subsequently the results from an empirical study on the determinants of innovative...
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Climate Change Affectedness and Innovation in German Firms
Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2022
, demand for climate friendly goods and extreme weather conditions on (eco-)innovation. The results of probit and treatment …
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Evaluating the Impacts of Subsidies on Innovation Activities in Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Radic, Dubravko - 2015
Innovations are a key factor to ensure the competitiveness of establishments as well as to enhance the growth and wealth of nations. But more than any other economic activity, decisions about innovations are plagued by failures of the market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been...
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The Link between Firms' Innovation Decision and the Business Cycle : An Empirical Analysis
Heger, Diana - 2018
additionally for SMEs. To this end firms' innovation decisions are considered. The decision to innovate in one period is modelled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028203
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Enterprise Software and Service Innovation : Standardization Versus Customization
Engelstätter, Benjamin - 2014
This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i.e. standardized enterprise software designed to fit one certain business sector and enterprise software specifically customized for a single firm. Using firm-level data of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068780
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Do Shorter Product Cycles Induce Patent Thickets?
Beschorner, Patrick - 2014
The traditional argument that shorter product cycles favor trade secret over patenting is reviewed. A game theoretic model provides an argument that shorter product cycles can induce firms to file more patent applications. The firms may be trapped in a prisoners' dilemma where all firms would...
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