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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance

Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015

Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their careers. We combine survey information spanning the...

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Green innovations and organizational change : making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2012

; innovation ; environmental innovation ; organizational change ; productivity …

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From less promising to green? : technological opportunities and their role in (green) ICT innovation

Cecere, Grazia; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2015

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …

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Invalid but infringed? : an analysis of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system

Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2014

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...

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Citation frequency and the value of patented innovation

Harhoff, Dietmar; Narin, Francis; Scherer, Frederic M.; … - 1997

Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....

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Green innovations and organizational change : making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014 - This version - February 2014

This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new technologies if complementary organisational changes...

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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms

Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010

term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the … Community Innovation Survey 2009, in which companies were asked to cite the respective regulations to be responsive for the … regulation on innovation. Furthermore, different types of regulations varied with respect to their impact on several …

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Invention in energy technologies : comparing energy efficiency and renewable energy inventions at the firm level

Rexhäuser, Sascha; Löschel, Andreas - 2014

Many countries, especially in Europe, have ambitious goals to transform their national energy systems towards renewable energies. Technological change in both renewable production and efficient use of energy can help to make these targets come true. Using a panel of German firms linked to the...

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Policy-induced environmental technology and incentive efforts : is there a crowding out?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2013

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …

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Unmasking the Porter hypothesis : environmental innovations and firm-profitability

Rexhäuser, Sascha; Rammer, Christian - 2011

are induced by regulations. However, innovation that increases a firm’s material or energy efficiency in terms of material … voluntary innovations, although the effect is significantly larger for regulation-driven innovation.We conclude that the Porter … hypothesis does not hold in general for its “strong” version but has to be qualified by the type of environmental innovation. Our …

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