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ICT and economic growth : comparing developing, emerging and developed countries
Niebel, Thomas - 2014
This paper analyzes the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth in developing, emerging and developed countries. It is based on a sample of 59 countries for the period 1995 to 2010. Various panel data regressions confirm the positive relationship between ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458249
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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2009
&D cooperation. -- Internationalisation of R&D ; Innovation ; Absorptive Capacities ; Market Structure ; China ; Asia ; Emerging …This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888033
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Auswirkungen der Wirtschaftskrise auf die Innovationstätigkeit der Unternehmen in Deutschland
Rammer, Christian - 2011
Die schwere Wirtschaftskrise 2008/09 hatte substanzielle Auswirkungen auf die Innovationstätigkeit der deutschen … gewordenen Personalkapazitäten wurden genutzt, um die Entwicklung neuer Technologien und Lösungen voranzutreiben und eine größere … im Krisenjahr 2009 ganz auf Innovationsaktivitäten. -- Wirtschaftskrise ; Innovationstätigkeit ; Unternehmensstrategien …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424135
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Bank credit supply and firm innovation
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2018
financial crisis 2008/2009 on their business customers’ innovation activity. Using a matched bank-firm data set for Germany, we … find that having relations with a more severely affected bank seriously hampers firms’ current innovation activities due to … initiate new product and process innovations and to reallocate human resources to innovation during the financial crisis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798962
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The impact of the financial crisis on investments in innovative firms
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of the financial crisis on investment decisions in innovative versus non-innovative firms. Firms are defined as being innovative if they have introduced a new product to the market. The empirical test is based on data for the years before and after the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339805
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External financing constraints and firm's innovative activities during the financial crisis
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2017
innovation activities of their business customers. Individual banks' liquidity shocks are identified by the degree of interbank … total innovation expenditures in comparison to the periods before. Our results imply that those firms which have a business … relation to a bank with higher interbank market reliance reduce their innovation activities during the financial crisis to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762085
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Sources of spillovers for imitation and innovation
Cappellin, Riccardo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2013
market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787404
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New evidence on determinants of IP litigation : a market-based approach
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2018
, this paper examines the occurrence of IP litigation cases in Belgian firms using the 2013 Community Innovation Survey with … supplemental information on IP litigation and patent portfolios. The rich survey information regarding firms’ general innovation … imitation and incremental innovation. Our results indicate that when controlling for firms’ IP portfolio, the composition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816416
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Private incentives to innovate : interplay of new products and brand-name reputation
Leheyda, Nina (contributor) - 2008
This paper studies the introduction of new products (increase in product variety) in the automobile industry. The focus is on the two sources of market power that may allow the firms to get higher profits (and, thus, recoup investments): new products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793986
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R&D incentives, compatibility and network externalities
Cerquera, Daniel (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyzes the impact of network externalities on R&D competition between an incumbent and a potential entrant. The analysis shows that the incumbent always invests more than the entrant in the development of higher quality network goods. However, the incumbent exhibits a too low level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003404785