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Intermittent versus dispatchable power sources: An integrated competitive assessment
Glenk, Gunther; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2021
The cost and revenue earnings potential of alternative power generation sources has shifted considerably in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and dispatchable generation technologies. We apply...
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Cost-efficient pathways to decarbonizing Portland cement production
Glenk, Gunther; Kelnhofer, Anton; Meier, Rebecca; … - 2023
Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production are technologically ready for deployment, many are still viewed as prohibitively...
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Does fragmented or heterogeneous IP ownership stifle investments in innovation?
Schwiebacher, Franz - 2013
Thickets of partially overlapping patent rights raise costs to secure IPR for innovation. Fragmented IP ownership … capital-intensities among owners of overlapping patents affect propensities to invest in innovation. I find that firms with … small patent portfolios are less likely to invest in innovation if IPR is fragmented. Firms with large patent portfolios are …
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Complementary assets, patent thickets and hold-up threats: Do transaction costs undermine investments in innovation?
Schwiebacher, Franz - 2012
Innovation is commercialization of technology. Imperfections in markets for technology should leave marks on physical … investments for innovation. Two types of transaction costs could affect innovative investments: royality stacking and hold … ownership fragmentation on investments related to innovation for firms with small patent portfolios. Hold-up threats are …
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Complementary assets, patent thickets and hold-up threats: Do transaction costs undermine investments in innovation?
Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Innovation is commercialization of technology. Imperfections in markets for technology should leave marks on physical … investments for innovation. Two types of transaction costs could affect innovative investments: royality stacking and hold … ownership fragmentation on investments related to innovation for firms with small patent portfolios. Hold-up threats are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957663
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Does fragmented or heterogeneous IP ownership stifle investments in innovation?
Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Thickets of partially overlapping patent rights raise costs to secure IPR for innovation. Fragmented IP ownership … capital-intensities among owners of overlapping patents affect propensities to invest in innovation. I find that firms with … small patent portfolios are less likely to invest in innovation if IPR is fragmented. Firms with large patent portfolios are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957725
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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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