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An economic analysis of online streaming : how the music industry can generate revenues from cloud computing
Thomes, Tim Paul - 2011
This paper investigates the upcoming business model of online streaming services allowing music consumers either to … subscribe to a service which provides free-of-charge access to streaming music and which is funded by advertising, or to pay a …-of-charge for subscribers if advertising imposes a weak nuisance to music consumers. If this is the case, and by imposing an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009159230
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An economic analysis of online streaming : how the music industry can generate revenues from cloud computing
Thomes, Tim Paul - 2011 - This version: July, 2011
This paper investigates the upcoming business model of online streaming services allowing music consumers either to … subscribe to a service which provides free-of-charge access to streaming music and which is funded by advertising, or to pay a … businesses will be launched by a single provider of streaming music. By imposing a two-sided market model on the one hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009266908
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How to fill the digital gap? : the (limited) role of regulation
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Melani, Sauro - 2016
This paper provides evidence on the migration from an “old” technology to a “new” technology, taking into account the impact that regulatory interventions on the old one might have on the incentives to invest and adopt the new one. This analysis has been applied to a sample of EU27...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409765
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Digital design protection in Europe : law, trends, and emerging issues
Filitz, Rainer; Henkel, Joachim; Ohnemus, Jörg - 2017
a copyright-, trademark- and patent-eligible subject matter, a European perspective is still lacking in the literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594753
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787415
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436068
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Spillover from the haven : cross-border externalities of patent box regimes within multinational firms
Schwab, Thomas; Todtenhaupt, Maximilian - 2016
This paper analyzes externalities of patent box regimes in Europe. Tax reductions in foreign affiliates of a firm that also provide a profit shifting opportunity reduce the user cost of capital and thereby increase domestic investment. We test this mechanism for the case of research activity. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558129
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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2014
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation … performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …
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