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How clean is clean? : incremental versus radical technological change in coal-fired power plants
Rennings, Klaus; Markewitz, Peter; Vögele, Stefan - 2009
In the discussion on innovations for sustainable development, radical innovations are frequently called for in order that the transformation of society to a system perceived as sustainable can succeed. The reason given for this is the greater environmental efficiency of these innovations. This...
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Does social software support service innovation?
Meyer, Jenny - 2009
firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal … and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software …) and knowledge-intensive service firms, this is the first paper which empirically analyses the question whether the use of …
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Increasing energy and resource efficiency through innovation : an explorative analysis using innovation survey data
Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2009
Energy and resource efficiency innovations (EREIs) are often seen as win-win opportunities for both the economic and 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...
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Mobile network interconnection and investments
Veith, Tobias - 2009
Abstract In markets with competing interconnected networks like mobile telecommunication markets investments affect the investor’s and also any competitors’ profits. In a theoretical model it is shown that cost-reducing investments reduce the investor’s termination rates and increase...
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European telecommunication regulation : effects on telecommunication providers
Veith, Tobias - 2010
This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a repeating ARGARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific...
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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity
Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2010
University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private sector firms increasingly seek direct access through funding public R&D. This development, however, spurred concerns about possible negative long-run effects on scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796153
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Quantity or quality? : collaboration strategies in research and development and incentives to patent
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - 2012
new knowledge and alliances that aim at exchange of existing knowledge, the results suggest that the positive effect on … patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …
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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity
Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2011 - This version: February 2011
University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private sector firms increasingly seek direct access through funding public R&D. This development, however, spurred concerns about possible negative long-run effects on scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152551
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R&D partnerships and innovation performance : can there be too much of a good thing?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2015
monitoring, requires knowledge disclosure and involves the risk of opportunistic behaviour by the partners. Thus, while the net …
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Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms : a European perspective
Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - 2013
This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The empirical analysis, based on the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2008) and CIS data for 16 countries, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due...
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