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Are local milieus the key to innovation performance?

Binz, Hanna L. (contributor); Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor) - 2008

This study investigates how local milieus foster innovation success of firms. We complement the common practice of … availability of highly skilled labor and the proximity to suppliers matters for firms’ innovation performance. Interestingly …, location factors obtained from the survey provide a more accurate explanation on how local milieus facilitate innovation. …

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The knowledge production of 'R' and 'D'

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2008

Many studies investigate the relationship between R&D expenditures as an input and patents as an intermediate product or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions has been underestimated in the literature, as scholars...

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Do spillovers stimulate incremental or drastic product innovations? : Hypotheses and evidence from German establishment data

Jirjahn, Uwe (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2006

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …

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Innovation activities abroad and the effects of liability of foreignness : where it hurts

Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2006

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

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The role of creative industries in industrial innovation

Müller, Kathrin (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyses the role of creative industries in affecting an economy’s innovation performance. We conducted a … innovative sectors in the economy. They support innovation in a variety of other sectors through creative inputs, such as ideas … for new products (i.e. innovation content), supplementary products and services (such as software) or marketing support …

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Motives for innovation co-coperation : evidence from the Canadian survey of innovation

Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sector to co-operate on innovation … innovation activities, which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from the Canadian Survey of Innovation …

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Gains and pains from contract research : a transaction and firm-level perspective

Grimpe, Christoph (contributor); Kaiser, Ulrich (contributor) - 2008

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …

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Who gets the money? : the dynamics of R&D project subsidies in Germany

Aschhoff, Birgit (contributor) - 2008

The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of state subsidies, in terms of input or output additionality. This analysis goes one important step further than the existing literature by including the time...

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The importance of equity finance for R&D activity - are there differences between young and oldcompanies?

Müller, Elisabeth (contributor); … - 2006

This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&D activity of small and medium-sized enterprises. We use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as instrument to control for endogeneity, we find...

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Grenzen und Reichweiten nationaler Innovationssysteme und forschungspolitische Implikationen

Spielkamp, Alfred - 1997

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …

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