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recipients' investment is less sensitive to internal liquidity. -- Research and development ; liquidity constraints ; innovation …
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CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals’ area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …
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The use of public procurement to promote private innovation activities has attracted increasing attention recently … to investigate whether this reform stimulated innovation in the business sector. Across a wide set of specifications …
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The viability of modern open science norms and practices depend on public disclosure of new knowledge, methods, and materials. However, increasing industry funding of research can restrict the dissemination of results and materials. We show, through a survey sample of 837 German scientists in...
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The theoretical discussion concerning the question whether the incumbent or the (potential) entrant invests more into R&D has attracted considerable interest. This paper reports the results of an empirical study on this question using data of about 3500 German firms over the years 1992 to 1995....
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This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …
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This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative activities. There are opposing effects concerning R&D intensity in the manager-controlled firm. Our study on the determinants of R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning...
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This paper considers the effect of different firm leadership on the innovative performance of firms from seven EU countries. We investigate whether owner-led or manager-led firms achieve a larger share of their turnover with product innovations. Economic theory does not propose clear answers to...
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We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a...
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