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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 and economic growth. They could open the way to many radically new applications, which would form the basis of innovative products. In this context, it seems all the more...

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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments

Hempell, Thomas - 2003

This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...

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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

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Strategic complementarities between different types of ICT-expenditures

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003

Multivariate Tobit models are estimated using German cross?sectional data to test whether strategic complementarities exist between expenditures in four different types of ICT?components. If two ICT?components are complements, they are correlated (provided that agents act rationally)....

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ICT, Innovation and Business Performance in Services: Evidence for Germany and the Netherlands

van der Wiel, Henry; van Leeuwen, George; Hempell, Thomas - 2004

-factor productivity seems to be more robust for Germany than for the Netherlands. …

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Concubinage or Marriage? Informal and Formal Cooperations for Innovation

Keilbach, Max; Bönte, Werner - 2004

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation between customers and suppliers, we state that firms perceive informal cooperation as being more important than formal cooperation modes. We then investigate the determinants of...

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IT, Organizational Change and Wages

Spitz, Alexandra; Bertschek, Irene - 2003

In this paper we analyze the impact of information technology and organizational changes on wages using individual level data for 1998/1999. The average impact of IT use on wages turns out to be five to six percent, however, the effects differ across different IT components. Unless employees use...

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