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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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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011 - This version: June 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation …. -- Workforce aging ; staffing strategies ; innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232253
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Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms : a European perspective
Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - 2013
This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they … growth turns out to be smaller in foreign-owned firms than in domestically owned firms. -- Employment ; innovation ; foreign …
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Fiscal policy and growth with complementarities and constraints on government
Misch, Florian; Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard - 2011
This paper considers the implications of complementarity in private production and constraints on government for optimal fiscal policy. Using an endogenous growth model with public finance, it derives three central results which modify findings in the literature under standard assumptions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901822
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Growth and welfare maximization in models of public finance and endogenous growth
Misch, Florian; Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard - 2011
This paper evaluates the trade-off between growth and welfare maximization from two perspectives. Firstly, it synthesizes and extends endogenous growth models with public finance to compare growth and welfare maximizing tax rates. Secondly, it examines the distinct model outcomes in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009159871
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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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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector : empirical evidence at the firm level
Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert Helmut - 1999
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …
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Spillover from the haven : cross-border externalities of patent box regimes within multinational firms
Schwab, Thomas; Todtenhaupt, Maximilian - 2016
This paper analyzes externalities of patent box regimes in Europe. Tax reductions in foreign affiliates of a firm that also provide a profit shifting opportunity reduce the user cost of capital and thereby increase domestic investment. We test this mechanism for the case of research activity. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558129
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Innovation dynamics and endogenous market structure : econometric results from aggregated survey data
Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert Helmut - 2001
This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446652
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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 …
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