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What Drives the Efficiency of Hard Coal Fuelled Electricity Generation? An Empirical Assessment
Hoffmann, Tim; Voigt, Sebastian - 2009
The efficiency of electricity generation in hard coal fired power plants varies considerably from country to country and over time. These differences occur both between developing and developed countries and between industrialised nations. The econometric analysis presented in this paper tests...
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Which Indicators of Absorptive Capacity Enhance Import-Induced South-North Convergence in Labor Intensities?
Hübler, Michael - 2013
We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains depending on various determinants of Southern absorptive capacity. We use the novel World Input-Output Database (WIOD) that provides bilateral and bisectoral panel data for 39...
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Mapping Technologies to Business Models. An Application to Clean Technologies and Entrepreneurship
Dörr, Julian Oliver - 2022
Theory suggests that new market entrants play a special role for the creation of new technological pathways required for the development and di usion of more sustainable forms of production, consumption, mobility and housing. Unconstrained by past technological investments, entrants can...
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Regional Redistribution of Mineral Resource Wealth in Africa
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2021
We study the economic implications of mineral resource activity for non-mining regions at the grid-level across the African continent. We find that capital cities benefit from mineral resource activity anywhere in the country. Leaders’ birth regions also benefit, but only in autocratic...
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Open Source, ICT Infrastructure and Firm Performance
Cerquera, Daniel; Mueller, Bettina - 2012
companies to produce OSS without systematically analyzing the economic impact of OSS on the economic performance of adopting …
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Innovative Capability and Financing Constraints for Innovation More Money, More Innovation?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - 2012
Economic theory suggests that financing constraints may occur due to capital market imperfections. These particularly affect investments in innovation projects as such projects are typically characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, complexity and specificity. Financing innovation...
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Fit and Complementarity – Cognitive Distance and Combined Competence as Predictors of Co-Operative R&D Projects’ Outcomes in Europe
Zibell, Laurent; Allen, Peter M. - 2014
This article considers cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of success in co-operative Research and Development (R&D) projects of firms. The concepts of cognitive distance and combined competence are operationalised based upon a dedicated survey, answered by matched pairs of...
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The Design Paradox : The Contribution of In-House and External Design Activities on Product Market Performance
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Thorwarth, Suzanne - 2009
company performance or innovation outcome. They, however, did not specifically link design to collaborative or externally … firm's innovation performance. To be more precise, we assess the question how market novelties or products which have only … supplement a firm's innovation performance. Moreover, we find that the success of market novelties is driven by design which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201132
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Does Professional Knowledge Management Improve Innovation Performance at the Firm Level?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - 2014
how knowledge management influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201133
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Drivers for International Innovation Activities in Developed and Emerging Countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2013
The internationalisation of corporate R&D is an opportunity for firms to reach local knowledge and expertise which is distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform products to local needs with locally available...
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