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Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. A main feature of new general-purpose technology is to enable new ways of production that may increase productivity. So...
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Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation: Evidence from firm-level data
Rammer, Christian; Fernández, Gastón P.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to offer new features of products and services, to improve production, marketing and administration processes, and to introduce new business models. This paper analyses the extent to...
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Review of the Literature on the Impact of Mergers on Innovation
Schulz, Norbert - 2007
Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage. Therefore they are fundamental to each firm?s competitive strategy. Usually, both instruments have been studied separately, but much less in conjunction. This is unfortunate as both processes - the process of...
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Review of the Literature on the Impact of Mergers on Innovation
Schulz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage. Therefore they are fundamental to each firm?s competitive strategy. Usually, both instruments have been studied separately, but much less in conjunction. This is unfortunate as both processes - the process of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097776
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Cluster policy, innovation, and firm productivity: An econometric assessment of the Flemish Spearhead Cluster Program
Angelino, Pierluigi; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Volckaert, Astrid - 2024
The Flemish government launched its Spearhead Cluster (SHC) policy in 2017. The aim is to boost strategic sectors by setting up cluster initiatives which coordinate collaborative R&D initiatives. In this paper, we analyze whether becoming a member of such a cluster initiative has an impact on...
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Measuring organisation capital at the firm level: A production function approach
Rammer, Christian; Roth, Felix; Trunschke, Markus - 2020
Organisation capital is one of the key intangible assets of firms, driving innovation and firm performance. Measuring this asset has been notoriously difficult, however. Differently to other intangible assets, firms do not build up organisation capital primarily by monetary investment but rather...
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Committing to grow: Privatizations and firm dynamics in East Germany
Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - 2023
This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The policy required new owners of the firms to commit to employment targets, with penalties for non-compliance. Using a dynamic model, we...
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IT outsourcing and employment growth at the firm level
Ohnemus, Jörg - 2010
Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run …. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304323
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IT outsourcing and employment growth at the firm level
Ohnemus, Jörg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run …. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869215
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Innovation Success of Non-R&D-Performers: Substituting Technology by Management in SMEs
Spielkamp, Alfred; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating successful innovations, inhouse R&D activities may be a...
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