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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1996

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to cash flow for relatively small firms. Much of this...

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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?

Harhoff, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

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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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Public procurement as an innovation policy: Where do we stand?

Chiappinelli, Olga; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Spagnolo, … - 2023

Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To …? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature survey of research on public procurement of innovation (PPI …: i) Does PPI spur innovation? ii) How should PPI be designed to best spur innovation? iii) What are the main barriers to …

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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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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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Financial Constraints: Routine Versus Cutting Edge R&D Investment

Binz, Hanna L.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

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Buyers' workload and R&D procurement outcomes: Evidence from the US Air Force Research Lab

Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Raiteri, Emilio - 2021

Does workload constitute a bottleneck to a public agency's mission, and if so, to what extent? We ask these questions in the context of the US government's procurement of R&D. We link tender, contract, patent, and office records to the identity of the officer responsible for the procurement...

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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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R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models

Hussinger, Katrin - 2003

This paper analyzes the effects of public R&D subsidies on R&D expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment. Cross sectional data at the firm level is used. By apllying parametric and...

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