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Susceptibility and influence in social media word-of-mouth
Claussen, Jörg; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - 2014
causal effects is challenging. We identify causal WOM effects in the empirical setting of game adoption in a social network …
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Innovationsaktivitäten von kmU im verarbeitenden Gewerbe : was zeichnet Imitatoren und originäre Innovatoren aus?
Zimmermann, Volker - 2003
the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448648
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How to fill the digital gap? : the (limited) role of regulation
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Melani, Sauro - 2016
analysis has been applied to a sample of EU27 countries using panel data from 2004 to 2014 on the adoption, coverage and take … programmes. Results show that a 1% increase in the regulated price to access the old technology increases the adoption and the … service adoption. …
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What determines the ZEW Indicator?
Lahl, David; Hüfner, Felix - 2003
This paper analyzes which factors are driving the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment. Using the results of a poll among survey participants as well as Granger causality tests we identify three groups of influence factors: other sentiment indicators, financial variables and real economy data. In...
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The impact of the financial crisis on investments in innovative firms
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of the financial crisis on investment decisions in innovative versus non-innovative firms. Firms are defined as being innovative if they have introduced a new product to the market. The empirical test is based on data for the years before and after the recent...
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Sources of spillovers for imitation and innovation
Cappellin, Riccardo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2013
market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …
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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?
Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - 2013
Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...
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From less promising to green? : technological opportunities and their role in (green) ICT innovation
Cecere, Grazia; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2015
This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …
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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 … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
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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