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Knowledge production in nanomaterials : an application of spatial filtering to regional systems of innovation
Grimpe, Christoph (contributor);  … - 2008
Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751313
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Motives for innovation co-coperation : evidence from the Canadian survey of innovation
Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2007
In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sector to co-operate on innovation … innovation activities, which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from the Canadian Survey of Innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447764
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Measuring patent quality in international comparison : index development and application to China
Boeing, Philipp; Müller, Elisabeth - 2015
We develop an index that compares the quality of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications by considering citations generated by International Search Reports (ISRs). In its most restrictive variation, i.e. excluding citations from the home country and self-citations, the ISR index is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300637
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Measuring patent quality and national technological capacity in cross-country comparison
Boeing, Philipp; Müller, Elisabeth - 2016
China recently surpassed the USA as the greatest global source of patent applications. However, without internationally comparable measures of patent quality it remains questionable whether China's patent expansion constitutes the rise of a new technological superpower. Our novel quality index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497061
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Peer effects in collaborative content generation : the evidence from German Wikipedia
Slivko, Olga - 2015 - This version: March 3, 2015
On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on articles’ talk pages work in collaborative manner engaging in communication about their work. Thus they can be considered as peers who are likely to influence each other. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529456
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Susceptibility and influence in social media word-of-mouth
Claussen, Jörg; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - 2014
Peer influence through word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an important role in many information systems but identification of causal effects is challenging. We identify causal WOM effects in the empirical setting of game adoption in a social network for gamers by exploiting differences in individuals’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467832
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Peer effects in collaborative content generation : the evidence from German Wikipedia
Slivko, Olga - 2014
On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on articles’ talk pages work in collaborative manner engaging in communication about their work. Thus they can be considered as peers who are likely to influence each other. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467845
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Aufsichtsratsverflechtungen und ihr Einfluss auf die Vorstandsbezüge von DAX-Unternehmen
Entorf, Horst; Gattung, Florian; Möbert, Jochen; … - 2008
Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht den Einfluss von Aufsichtsratsvernetzungen auf die Entwicklung der Vorstandsbezüge von DAX-Unternehmen. Die kombinierte Anwendung von Methoden der sozialen Netzwerkanalyse und der Panelökonometrie erleichtert die Erfassung der Struktur der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721825
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339805
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787404