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What drives market structure? On the relation between firm demographic processes, firms? innovative behaviour and market structure

Fauchart, Emmanuelle; Keilbach, Max - 2002

behaviour and distinguish between dierent innovation regimes. On the basis of a set of simulations of this model we derive a …

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An information economics perspective on main bank relationships and firm R&D

Hoewer, Daniel; Schmidt, Tobias; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2011

Information economics has emerged as the primary theoretical lens for framing financing decisions in firm R&D investment. Successful outcomes of R&D projects are either ex-ante impossible to predict or the information is asymmetrically distributed between inventors and investors. As a result,...

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Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002

German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose … SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …

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Firm leadership and innovative performance: evidence from seven EU Countries

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2001

This paper considers the effect of different firm leadership on the innovative performance of firms from seven EU countries. We investigate whether owner-led or manager-led firms achieve a larger share of their turnover with product innovations. Economic theory does not propose clear answers to...

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Selectivity in search strategies for innovation: from incremental to radical, from manufacturing to services

Köhler, Christian; Sofka, Wolfgang; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

The shift towards more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic of recent academic and … universities, to increase the effectiveness of their innovation activities. Hence, management needs to define search strategies for … that search strategies driven by science, suppliers and the product market will contribute differently to innovation …

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Financial Constraints: Routine Versus Cutting Edge R&D Investment

Binz, Hanna L.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008

We analyze financial constraints for R&D, where we account for heterogeneity among investments which has been neglected in previous literature. According to economic theory, investments should be distinguished by their degree of uncertainty, e.g. routine R&D versus cutting-edge R&D. Financial...

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R&D Investment and Financing Constraints of Small and Medium-Sized Firm

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Binz, Hanna L. - 2008

This study tests for financial constraints on R&D investment and how they differ from capital investment. To identify constraints in the access to external capital, we employ a credit rating index. Our models show that internal constraints, measured by mark-ups, are more decisive for R&D than...

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Evaluating the Impacts of Subsidies on Innovation Activities in Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Radić, Dubravko - 2005

market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …

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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …

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Knowledge Production in Nanomaterials: An Application of Spatial Filtering to Regional Systems of Innovation

Patuelli, Roberto; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

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