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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany: Do Organizational Measures Matter? A Discrete Choice Analysis at the Firm Level

Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004

realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation. …

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On the Profitability of Innovative Assets

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2004

Successful innovative activity is a major contribution to the intangible capital of firms. Although its importance is generally acknowledged, the contribution to companies? profits is a priori unclear. We present the results of an empirical study on the effects of the patent stock on...

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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004

The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....

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Capital Control, Debt Financing and Innovative Activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2004

innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …

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License Expenditures of Incumbents and Potential Entrants: An Empirical Analysis of Firm Behavior

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2005

variables the motives for innovation expenditures are also taken into account. We differentiate between firms which intend to …

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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data

Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments … face difficulties in using knowledge that comes from areas they are not familiar with. Establishments exploit spillovers …

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R&D and Firm Performance in a Transition Economy

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006

We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a...

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Employment impacts of cleaner production: evidence from a German study using case studies and surveys

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Rennings, Klaus - 1999

The study assesses net employment effects of technical progress which can be expected by the ongoing transition from end-of-pipe technologies towards cleaner production. Empirical evidence is presented on the basis of case studies and panel data including a telephone survey in German industry....

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Measuring the impact of innovation on firm value: a new approach

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002

Most of the existing empirical literature on the relationship of firm value and knowledge capital is based on the stock …. It turns out that innovative firms, i.e. those with a reasonable knowledge stock, have a better credit rating and thus …

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