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Several reviews and impact assessment studies have concluded that the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and … science. Based on a sample of more than 1,000 scientists at universities and public research institutes in Germany, this paper … sizes, less predefined research topics, a reduced administrative burden, and a higher quality of the peer review system …
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materials. However, increasing industry funding of research can restrict the dissemination of results and materials. We show … scientists who receive industry funding are twice as likely to deny requests for research inputs as those who do not. Receiving …, however, 50% more likely to be denied access to research materials by others, but this is not affected by being funded …
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Die vorliegenden Überlegungen sind darauf gerichtet, die Ideen und wesentlichen Gedanken Nationaler Innovationssysteme aufzugreifen und in den Kontext einer wissensbasierten Ökonomie zu stellen. Neben den Akteuren oder Spielern geht es um die Regeln und Funktionsmechanismen und schließlich...
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scientific research. It has been argued that an increasing orientation towards commercialization may have a negative impact on … more fundamental research efforts in science. Several scholars have therefore analyzed the relationship between publication … former may have closer links to basic research, this is not what we expect from the latter. We argue that such efforts will …
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R&D encompasses plenty of activities which are usually summarized under the terms of basic research, applied research … and development. Although basic research is often associated with low appropriability it provides the fundamental basis … for subsequent applied research and development. Especially in the high-tech sector basic research capabilities are an …
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We develop a simple model of competition for the market that shows that, contrary to the Arrow view, endogenous entry threat in a market induces the average firm to invest less in R&D and the incumbent leader to invest more. We test these predictions with a Tobit model based on a unique dataset...
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In this article we study differences in the returns to R&D investment between firms that sell in international markets and firms that only sell in the domestic market. We use German firm-level data from the high-tech manufacturing sector to estimate a dynamic structural model of a firm's...
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We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison 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...
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&D activities in its components, "R" and "D". In particular, we distinguish research from development as these activities do not … for financing their research compared to development activities. Moreover, we find that (basic) research subsidy … recipients' investment is less sensitive to internal liquidity. -- Research and development ; liquidity constraints ; innovation …
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This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...
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