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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement

Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012

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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An empirical test of the asymmetric models on innovative activity : who invests more into R&D - the incumbent or the challenger?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

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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Haftungsregeln und Innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

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Management control and innovative activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

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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Firm leadership and innovative performance : evidence from seven EU Countries

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002 - This Version: March 2002

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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Heterogeneity of patenting activity and its implications for scientific research

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); … - 2007

The increasing commercialization of university discoveries has initiated a controversy on the impacts for future scientific research. It has been argued that an increasing orientation towards commercialization may have a negative impact on more fundamental research efforts in science. Several...

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Evaluation of public R&D policies : a cross-country comparison

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2010

This study focuses on the effect of public funding on internal R&D investment and on total innovation intensity on a … whether or not governments could further foster R&D activities by extending innovation policies to currently not supported … does not uncover any systematic misallocation of public funding for the countries under review. -- Innovation ; Policy …

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Young innovative companies : the new high-growth firms?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Delanote, Julie - 2012

Young Innovative Companies (YIC) gained increasing attention from governments and scholars due to their expected high innovative performance and growth. Consequently, this study investigates whether Young Innovative Companies, as defined by the EU, grow more than other firms, both in terms of...

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Innovation subsidies: does the funding source matter for innovation intensity and performance? : Empirical evidence from Germany

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2011

heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and … received, EU grants have higher effects. In terms of output, holding innovation expenditures constant, funding from both … obtained, we find superiority for national funding. -- Subsidies ; Innovation ; Policy Evaluation ; Treatment Effects …

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Using innovation survey data to evaluate R&D policy : the case of belgium

Aerts, Kris (contributor); Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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