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We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …
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This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new technologies if complementary organisational changes...
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; innovation ; environmental innovation ; organizational change ; productivity …
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Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms' innovation activities that both supplement and … complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of … nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to technological innovation, and their effects to firm performance and success …
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The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and widespread integration project to ensure that a company’s innovative capabilities are carried forward into the future. Previous research has shown, however, that the combined...
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This paper investigates to what extent the usage of information and communication technology (ICT) fosters innovation … that ICT use is associated with an increase in both types of flexibility but the implications for innovation activities …
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Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company …
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analyzing these effects for different environmental innovation fields. We use the 2009 wave of the German part of the Community … Innovation Panel (CIS) allowing for such an analysis at the firm level. The main focus of the paper lies on the analysis of the … adaptation behavior of firms with respect to the relationship of employment and (environmental) innovation. We use an endogenous …
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The study assesses net employment effects of technical progress which can be expected by the ongoing transition from end-of-pipe technologies towards cleaner production. Empirical evidence is presented on the basis of case studies and panel data including a telephone survey in German industry....
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In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …
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