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Mobile and more productive? : firm-level evidence on the productivity effects of mobile internet use
Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2015 - This version December 2015
Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether … employees’ use of mobile internet access improves firms’ labour productivity. Our data set contains 2143 German firms and refers … to the year 2014, when high-speed mobile internet was still at a relatively early stage of diffusion within firms. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422526
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Mobile and more productive? : firm-level evidence on the productivity effects of mobile internet use at the early stage of diffusion
Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2013
Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether … employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set comprises 2460 German firms and … refers to the year 2010, when mobile internet started its diffusion process to firms on a large scale. The econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238636
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The economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet : a survey
Bertschek, Irene; Briglauer, Wolfgang; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 2016
and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522665
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003835112
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Does social software support service innovation?
Meyer, Jenny - 2009
Recent Internet technologies and web-based applications, such as social software, are being increasingly applied in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003880928
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881578
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902948
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Churning of R&D personnel and innovation
Müller, Kathrin; Peters, Bettina - 2010
This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning as a measure for worker mobility. Churning depicts the number of workers which are replaced by new ones. It is a very informative indicator since a firm may be exposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969876
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Against the one-way-street : analyzing knowledge transfer from industry to science
Fier, Heide; Pyka, Andreas - 2010
This study aims at analyzing the differences in the factors that influence the probability of knowledge transfer within industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis on the basis of patent data was conducted and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989029
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701352