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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445814
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Does energy policy hurt international competitiveness of firms? : a comparative study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra; Peneder, Michael; … - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international competitiveness. We use firm-level data from three countries with similar industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561938
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Are local milieus the key to innovation performance?
Binz, Hanna L. (contributor); Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor) - 2008 - Rev. version
This study investigates how local milieus foster innovation success of firms. We complement the common practice of … availability of highly skilled labor and the proximity to suppliers matters for firms’ innovation performance. Interestingly …, location factors obtained from the survey provide a more accurate explanation on how local milieus facilitate innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751840
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Are local milieus the key to innovation performance?
Binz, Hanna L. (contributor); Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor) - 2008
This study investigates how local milieus foster innovation success of firms. We complement the common practice of … availability of highly skilled labor and the proximity to suppliers matters for firms’ innovation performance. Interestingly …, location factors obtained from the survey provide a more accurate explanation on how local milieus facilitate innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003634815
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
The question whether agglomeration externalities arise either from specialization or diversification of economic activity has since long been a major topic in the analysis of factors determining economic growth. In this paper we analyze whether a more specialized or a more diverse skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888000
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Spatial model selection and spatial knowledge spillovers : a regional view of Germany
Klarl, Torben - 2010
The aim of this paper is to introduce a new model selection mechanism for cross sectional spatial models. This method is more flexible than the approach proposed by Florax et al. (2003) since it controls for spatial dependence as well as for spatial heterogeneity. In particular, Bayesian and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922966
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Do university based regions really attract outside entrepreneurs : the case of the German biotechnology industry
Engel, Dirk (contributor); Heneric, Oliver (contributor) - 2005
The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany’s biotechnology founders. We present an unique approach to highlight the role of knowledge spillovers as we differentiate according the local embeddedness and research affinity of founders....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003114223
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The role of creative industries in industrial innovation
Müller, Kathrin (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyses the role of creative industries in affecting an economy’s innovation performance. We conducted a … innovative sectors in the economy. They support innovation in a variety of other sectors through creative inputs, such as ideas … for new products (i.e. innovation content), supplementary products and services (such as software) or marketing support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793740
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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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Invalid but infringed? : an analysis of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system
Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2014
We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...
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