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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability
Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schubert, Torben - 2013
We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …
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Integration and reorganisation of industrial R&D : deficits and perspectives of empirical research
Grimpe, Christoph (contributor) - 2005
The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and widespread integration project to ensure that a company’s innovative capabilities are carried forward into the future. Previous research has shown, however, that the combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003242975
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On the formation of coalitions to provide public goods : experimental evidence from the lab
Dannenberg, Astrid; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - 2010
The provision of public goods often relies on voluntary contributions and cooperation. While most of the experimental literature focuses on individual contributions, many real-world problems involve the formation of institutions among subgroups (coalitions) of players. International agreements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969890
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Decentralizing university admission : evidence from a natural experiment
Horstschräer, Julia - 2012
Applying a differences-in-differences strategy, I study the decentralization of university admission as a natural experiment. Is the centralized or decentralized procedure better suited to match prospective students to universities? The analysis uses administrative data on all students within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668475
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Institutional childcare : an overview on the German market
Muehler, Grit (contributor) - 2008
Institutional early childhood education and care can be funded and delivered in various ways relying on both the public and the private sector. The provision of childcare ranges from public operation to mixed markets with public and private providers to considerably marketised systems with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003761012
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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...
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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 …
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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector : empirical evidence at the firm level
Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert Helmut - 1999
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …
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