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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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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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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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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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rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …
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outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …
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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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This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a … quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and … shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee headcounts is much stronger in companies that are already experiencing …
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internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the …
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This study examines the consequences of loan denials for the investment performance of small and medium-sized German enterprises. As a consequence of a loan denial, innovative companies experience a smaller drop in the share of actual to planned investment than non-innovative companies. The...
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