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Resource allocation flexibility for innovation performance: The effects of breadth, uncertainty, and selectiveness
Klingebiel, Ronald; Rammer, Christian - 2011
Our study shows empirically that the choice of resource allocation strategy affects innovation performance. A policy of … allocating resources to a broader range of innovation projects increases sales of new products, especially if these are truly … stronger for firms that allocate resources more selectively at later stages of the innovation process. Based on these results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307838
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The distinct features of hidden champions in Germany: A dynamic capabilities view
Rammer, Christian; Spielkamp, Alfred - 2019
product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012000571
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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective
Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008
outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297987
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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 … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298075
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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 … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297327
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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297531
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Public research and industrial innovations in Germany
Beise, Marian; Stahl, Harald - 1998
This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research at universities, polytechnics and federal research labs on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of public research institutions. In questioning 2,300 companies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297597
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Managing Search Strategies for Open Innovation: The Role of Environmental Munificence as well as Internal and External R&D
Sofka, Wolfgang; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008
Firms compete increasingly in an open innovation environment. Search strategies for external knowledge become therefore … are built through internal or external R&D activities) and the munificence of its innovation environment. We test these … its breadth. Moreover, we find that scarce innovation environments favor deep search strategies while breadth is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298652
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Quantity or quality? Collaboration strategies in research and development and incentives to patent
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - 2012
This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms that collaborative R&D has a positive effect on firms' patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. When distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and alliances that aim at exchange of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309806
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Resource allocation flexibility for innovation performance: The effects of breadth, uncertainty, and selectiveness
Klingebiel, Ronald; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Our study shows empirically that the choice of resource allocation strategy affects innovation performance. A policy of … allocating resources to a broader range of innovation projects increases sales of new products, especially if these are truly … stronger for firms that allocate resources more selectively at later stages of the innovation process. Based on these results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646601