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The impact of brand use on innovation performance : empirical results for Germany
Crass, Dirk - 2014
The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To achieve this objective most efficiently, firms strengthen their technological capabilities, acquire external knowledge in a number of different ways, and optimize their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458242
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … results for Germany reveal exactly the opposite effect. These results suggest that both specialization and diversity theories …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888000
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Spatial model selection and spatial knowledge spillovers : a regional view of Germany
Klarl, Torben - 2010
The aim of this paper is to introduce a new model selection mechanism for cross sectional spatial models. This method is more flexible than the approach proposed by Florax et al. (2003) since it controls for spatial dependence as well as for spatial heterogeneity. In particular, Bayesian and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922966
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Do university based regions really attract outside entrepreneurs : the case of the German biotechnology industry
Engel, Dirk (contributor); Heneric, Oliver (contributor) - 2005
The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany … only for academic founders inside as well as outside the region. In contrast, the start-up activity of non …-academic founders coming from inside or outside the region cannot be explained with knowledge intensity of the region. Our empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003114223
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The dynamic relationship between investments in brand equity and firm profitability : evidence using trademark registrations
Crass, Dirk; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - 2016
Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to a firm's financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable stock that results from up to thirty years of past brand-related investment flows. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418793
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Lessons of the financial crisis for the attractiveness of European financial centers
Lang, Gunnar - 2012
This paper analyses fundamental location factors for the financial industry by investigating the economic significance of market participants’ assessments of location factors and country-specific characteristics over time. A unique data set allows studying the locational attractiveness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675313
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Earnings losses after non-employment increase with age
Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2008
This paper shows that earnings losses after unemployment increase with age. First, older employees start out with relatively high earnings in comparison to employees without employment interruptions several years before the non-employment spell. This earnings advantage turns into a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728393
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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2008
Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728424
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Noncognitive skills, Internet use and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Gernandt, Johannes (contributor) - 2008
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market effects of educational dropout. In addition to classical variables like family background and occupation, we examine noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728547
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The adoption of new technologies and the age structure of the workforce
Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides firm-level evidence for the relationship between the age structure of the workforce and the adoption of new or significantly improved technologies in service sector firms. Furthermore, it closes a research gap by analyzing the joint impact of the age of the workforce and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728572