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Let the user speak : is feedback on Facebook a source of firms' innovation?

Bertschek, Irene; Kesler, Reinhold - 2017

study the role that firms' and users' activities on Facebook play in the innovation process. We find that firms' adoption of … actively ask for feedback, while only negative user comments are positively and significantly related to innovation success …

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Microgeography of innovation in the city : location patterns of innovative firms in Berlin

Rammer, Christian; Kinne, Jan; Blind, Knut - 2016

and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

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Spillovers in networks of user generated content : evidence from 23 natural experiments on Wikipedia

Kummer, Michael E. - 2013

Endogeneity in network formation hinders the identification of the role social networks play in generating spillovers, peer effects and other externalities. This paper tackles this problem and investigates how the link network between articles on the German Wikipedia influences the attention and...

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Spillovers in networks of user generated content : pseudo-experimental evidence on Wikipedia

Kummer, Michael E. - 2014

I quantify spillovers of attention in a network of content pages, which is challenging, because such networks form endogenously. I exploit exogenous variation in the article network of German Wikipedia to circumvent this problem. Wikipedia prominently advertises one featured article on its main...

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"Brain gain" on Wikipedia : immigrants return knowledge home

Slivko, Olga - 2018

Economic literature acknowledges the impact of immigration on cross-border patenting and scientific publications. However, the role of immigration ows in the dissemination of knowledge in a broader sense is yet to be assessed. In this paper, I estimate the effect of immigration on the...

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Let the user speak : is feedback on Facebook a source of firms' innovation?

Bertschek, Irene; Kesler, Reinhold - 2018 - This version: May 2018

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Absorptive capacity and post-acquisition inventor productivity

Hussinger, Katrin - 2010

counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper provides empirical evidence into the role of acquiring firms’ absorptive …

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

Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2006

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

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Absorptive capacity - one size fits all? : A firm-level analysis of absorptive capacity for different kinds of knowledge

Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2005

from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …

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What makes foreign knowledge attractive to domestic innovation managers?

Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2007

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. the organizational processes …

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