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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 … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …

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The contribution of different public innovation funding programs to SMEs' export performance

Liu, Rebecca; Rammer, Christian - 2016

This paper studies the effects of different public innovation funding programs on the innovation output and export … contributes to higher innovation outputs, which in turn translates into higher export success in later years. This relation … a significant positive effect on SMEs' export performance. For funding programs run by regional authorities, we find …

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Firm R&D investment and export market exposure

Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh - 2018

export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … differ in their export market exposure. Simulating the introduction of trade tariffs we find a substantial reduction in firms …

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Local labor market size and qualification mismatch

Berlingieri, Francesco - 2017

This paper investigates the effect of the size of the local labor market on skill mismatch. Using survey data for Germany, I find that workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their job and to work in a different field than the one they are trained for. Different...

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Age and productivity : evidence from linked employer employee data

Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2009

In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employer-employee panel...

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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement

Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012

It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO’s individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees’ knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas...

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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation : complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees

Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016

We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...

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Drivers and effects of internationalising innovation by SMEs

Rammer, Christian (contributor); Schmiele, Anja (contributor) - 2008

internationalisation effects at the firm level. The results show that export experience and experience in knowledge protection are highly …

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Local user-producer interaction in innovation and export performance of firms

Beise, Marian (contributor); Rammer, Christian (contributor) - 2003

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Drivers and effects of internationalising innovation by SMEs

Rammer, Christian (contributor); Schmiele, Anja (contributor) - 2008 - Rev. version

internationalisation effects at the firm level. The results show that export experience and experience in knowledge protection are highly …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751859