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This study aims at analyzing the differences in the factors that influence the probability of knowledge transfer within industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis on the basis of patent data was conducted and a...
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Existing literature has confined university technology transfer almost exclusively to formal mechanisms, like patents, licenses or royalty agreements. Relatively little is known about informal technology transfer that is based upon interactions between university scientists and industry...
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This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...
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The not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome refers to internal resistance in a company against externally developed knowledge. In this paper, we argue that the occurrence of the NIH syndrome depends on the source of external knowledge and the success of the firm that aims at adapting external...
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We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains depending on various determinants of Southern absorptive capacity. We use the novel World Input-Output Database (WIOD) that provides bilateral and bisectoral panel data for 39...
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This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
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(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …
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the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms … with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do EREI firms follow distinct innovation strategies? Do EREIs spur … or limit innovation success? And what are the particular features of EREI firms compared to conventional innovators …
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This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning … innovation through inter-firm knowledge spillovers and improved job-match quality up to certain threshold. The point when costs … of churning exceed the benefits is reached faster if the R&D knowledge is non-duplicative. -- innovation ; churning …
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multinational companies. -- Export ; R&D ; Multinational enterprises ; Innovation Policy …
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