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Innovationsaktivitäten von kmU im verarbeitenden Gewerbe: Was zeichnet Imitatoren und originäre Innovatoren aus?
2003
This contribution is concerned with the spread of new products in small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Based on an empirical study it is analyzed according to which factors planned product launches are either genuine market novelties or products that are new from the...
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Savings, expectations and technological unemployment: a generalization of assumptions for the Hicksian fixwage traverse
Kraus, Margit; Wirth, Steffen - 2000
technologically caused business cycles. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297691
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Measuring the impact of innovation on firm value: a new approach
Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002
Most of the existing empirical literature on the relationship of firm value and knowledge capital is based on the stock …. It turns out that innovative firms, i.e. those with a reasonable knowledge stock, have a better credit rating and thus …
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Haftungsregeln und Innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000
In dieser Studie werden die Anreize für Innovationsaktivitäten von Firmen mit beschränkter und unbeschränkter Haftung untersucht. Innovationen sind mit einem gewissen Risiko behaftet. Firmeneigner können ihr persönliches Risiko jedoch begrenzen, wenn das Unternehmen eine Rechstform mit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297701
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Business R&D and the Interplay of R&D Subsidies and Market Uncertainty
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - 2006
private R&D investment caused by incomplete appropriability of knowledge and financial constraints due capital market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297826
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Patent protection, market uncertainty, and R&D investment
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - 2006
The real options investment theory shows that greater uncertainty about market revenues reduces current R&D investment by increasing the value of waiting. This paper presents empirical evidence that patent protection mitigates the effect market uncertainty on R&D investment.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297827
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Patent Protection, Market Uncertainty, and R&D Investment
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008
Real options investment theory predicts current investment falls as uncertainty about market returns increases. In the case of R&D investment, which is usually considered an irreversible form of investment, this effect should be quite pronounced. This paper tests the real options prediction...
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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data From Four European Countries
Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298693
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How clean is clean? Incremental versus radical technological change in coal-fired power plants
Rennings, Klaus; Markewitz, Peter; Vögele, Stefan - 2009
In the discussion on innovations for sustainable development, radical innovations are frequently called for in order that the transformation of society to a system perceived as sustainable can succeed. The reason given for this is the greater environmental efficiency of these innovations. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298793
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Does social software support service innovation?
Meyer, Jenny - 2009
firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal … and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software …) and knowledge-intensive service firms, this is the first paper which empirically analyses the question whether the use of …
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