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Does R&D-infrastructure attract high-tech start-ups?

Engel, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - 2000

Our research, based on the ZEW-Foundation Panel East, examines whether high-tech start-ups are mainly founded in …. Moreover, high-tech start-ups are more concentrated within or near technology and foundation centres. …

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Dynamik von akademischen Spinoff-Gründungen in Österreich

Egeln, Jürgen (contributor) - 2007

Mit der steigenden Nachfrage nach neuem Wissen kommt der öffentlichen Forschung eine wachsende Rolle als Produzentin von wirtschaftlich relevantem Wissen zu. Durch eine Stärkung des Wissens- und Technologietransfers soll dieses Potenzial besser für Wachstum und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer...

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R&D investment and financing constraints of small and medium-sized firms

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

This study tests for financial constraints on R&D investment and how they differ from capital investment. To identify constraints in the access to external capital, we employ a credit rating index. Our models show that internal constraints, measured by mark-ups, are more decisive for R&D than...

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R&D and firm performance in a transition economy

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2006

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 negative impact in Eastern Germany. We also consider future … financial distress, and find that R&D in Eastern German firms leads to higher default risk, in contrast to Western Germany …

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Patent protection, market uncertainty, and R&D investment

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Toole, Andrew A. (contributor) - 2006

The real options investment theory shows that greater uncertainty about market revenues reduces current R&D investment by increasing the value of waiting. This paper presents empirical evidence that patent protection mitigates the effect market uncertainty on R&D investment.

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Detecting behavioural additionality : an empirical study on the impact of public R&D funding on firms' cooperative behaviour in Germany

Aschhoff, Birgit (contributor); Fier, Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

Subsidising research networks has become a popular instrument in technology policies, driven mainly by expected positive spillovers. In particular, the stimulation of R&D co-operation between scientific institutions and industry is considered as most promising. In the context of policy...

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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 impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...

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

Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2006

innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

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Industrial research versus development investment : the implications of financial constraints

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2009

Previous literature provided evidence on financing constraints for investment in R&D activities due to capital market imperfections and special features of R&D investments. Moreover, it has been shown that a shift in capital structure towards more debt, results in a reduction of R&D investments....

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Heterogeneity of patenting activity and its implications for scientific research

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); … - 2007

publishing distinguishing between different types of patents for a large sample of professors active in Germany. Our results show …

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