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Innovation and Information Technology in Services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
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IT is never too late for changes? Analysing the relationship between process innovation, IT and older workers
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2010
harmful to the probability of process innovation based on IT. Leaving the negative relationship between older workers and the …. Thus, not older workers in general are harmful to firms' innovation capabilities, but older workers who lack the …
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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
deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …
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Technology Use, Organisational Flexibility and Innovation: Evidence for Germany
Hempell, Thomas; Zwick, Thomas - 2005
This paper investigates to what extent the usage of information and communication technology (ICT) fosters innovation … that ICT use is associated with an increase in both types of flexibility but the implications for innovation activities …
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Does Experience Matter? Innovations and the Productivity of ICT in German Services
Hempell, Thomas - 2002
In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...
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External technology supply and client-side innovation
Peukert, Christian - 2011
client-side innovation. The aim of this paper is to contribute to resolving an empirical puzzle arising from the prior … economics. We hypothesize that the right balance between internal and external knowledge is critical for innovation. The … innovation. For product innovation we find a hump-shape. …
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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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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2005
This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …
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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level
Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert - 1999
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …
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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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