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External capital access and new product launch in start-up firms with uncertain intellectual property rights

Heger, Diana; Hussinger, Katrin - 2013

Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions and the certification effect of patents which...

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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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Innovation, creative destruction and structural change : firm-level evidence from European Countries

Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Köhler, Christian; … - 2016

The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry … dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by … product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing …

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R&D policies for young SMEs : input and output effects

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Delanote, Julie - 2015

This paper evaluates the current focus of EU policy makers on small and medium-sized, young independent firms in high-tech sectors. Therefore, the effect of subsidies on both R&D input and R&D output is compared between independent high-tech young firms (NTBFs), independent low-tech young firms...

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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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The R&D investment-uncertainty relationship : do competition and firm size matter?

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Toole, Andrew A. (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest less in current R&D as uncertainty about market...

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Inkrementelle versus radikale Innovationen am Beispiel der Kraftwerkstechnik

Rennings, Klaus (contributor); Markewitz, Peter (contributor) - 2008

In der Diskussion um Innovationen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung werden häufig radikale Innovationen gefordert, damit die Transformation der Gesellschaft hin zu einem als nachhaltig empfundenen System gelingen kann. Begründet wird dies mit einer höheren Umwelteffizienz dieser Innovationen....

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Innovation success of non-R&D-performers : substituting technology by management in SMEs

Rammer, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating successful innovations, inhouse R&D activities may be a...

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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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