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Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) constitute a disruption to the working environment of the inventive labor force of the acquired company. If inventors would respond with a decline of their patent productivity or departure from the firm this can be detrimental to the innovative process within the...
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mechanisms. There has, however, been little systematic research on how the mobility of university scientists influences their …. This paper therefore analyses the link between university scientists' technology transfer activities and their … a sample of more than 500 German university scientists, our results indicate that a substantial share of scientists …
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offers an empirical examination of this question for a subpopulation of biomedical academic scientists who received research … change using individual-level panel data. We find that the biomedical scientists who eventually choose to found or join a for …
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between university scientists and industry personnel. Moreover, most studies are limited to the United States, where the Bay … 800 university scientists, our results show similar relationships for the United States and Germany. Faculty quality which …
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During the last years more and more discussions came up about the contribution of technology-oriented and technology-intensive industries for employment and economic development. One reason for some of the contradictory evaluations of technology-intensive industries can be attributed to...
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science. Based on a sample of more than 1,000 scientists at universities and public research institutes in Germany, this paper …
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This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning as a measure for worker mobility. Churning depicts the number of workers which are replaced by new ones. It is a very informative indicator since a firm may be exposed to...
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A significant amount of money is spent on programs to stimulate innovative activities. In this paper, we review the effects of a specific government-sponsored commercial R&D program from various angles. We start by evaluating whether we find positive effects of subsidies on R&D investment and...
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