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External capital access and new product launch in start-up firms with uncertain intellectual property rights

Heger, Diana; Hussinger, Katrin - 2013

Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions and the certification effect of patents which...

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The internationalisation of British and German start-up companies in high-technology industries

Bürgel, Oliver; Fier, Andreas; Licht, Georg; Murray, … - 1998

, etablierten Unternehmen herangewachsen. Aufgrund der - im Vergleich zu den USA - kleinen nationalen Heimatmärkte ist die schnelle … Analyse ist Teil einer in Zusammenarbeit mit der Warwick Business School (Großbritannien) durchgeführten Untersuchung, die zu … Mehrheit der analysierten jungen Unternehmen bereits in den ersten Lebensjahren auf Auslandsmärkten aktiv sind, angefangen vom …

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Does R&D-infrastructure attract high-tech start-ups?

Engel, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - 2000

Our research, based on the ZEW-Foundation Panel East, examines whether high-tech start-ups are mainly founded in scientific and infrastructural well suited regions or not. Estimation results on the level of postcode areas confirm the hypothesis that specific human capital, knowledge spillovers...

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Internationalisation of high-tech start-ups and fast growth-evidence for UK and Germany

Bürgel, Oliver; Fier, Andreas; Licht, Georg; Murray, … - 2000

multinationale Unternehmen strategische Instrumente, indem sie zum Beispiel international expandieren, um Skalenerträge zu erhöhen … organisatorische Ressourcen erfordern, stellt sich die Frage, wie die kleinsten Unternehmen im High-tech Sektor, die "High-tech Start …-ups", sich solchen Herausforderungen stellen. Ist diesen Unternehmen ein ressourcen-intensiver Markteintritt möglich, um früh …

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Capital gains taxation and funding for start-ups

Edwards, Alexander; Todtenhaupt, Maximilian - 2018

We examine how capital gains taxes affect investment in start-up (i.e., pre-IPO) firms. Using data on capital raised by start-up firms in individual funding rounds, we estimate the effect of the SBJA of 2010, which implemented a full exemption from federal capital gains tax on the sale of...

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The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) and firm statistics for Germany

Bersch, Johannes; Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Bettina; … - 2014

The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (Mannheimer Unternehmenspanel – MUP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official business register (which is not accessible to the public). The MUP is based on the firm...

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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 projects. Our focus is on the motives behind this decision and the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation activities, which influence the motives for...

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Cooperation in international environmental negotiations due to a preference for equity

Lange, Andreas; Vogt, Carla - 2001

This paper demonstrates that cooperation in international environmental negotiations can be explained by preferences for equity. Within a N-country prisoner's dilemma in which agents can either cooperate or defect, in addition to the standard non-cooperative equilibrium, cooperation of a large...

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Knowledge flows and R&D co-operation : firm-level evidence from Germany

Schmidt, Tobias F. N. (contributor) - 2005

This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We also investigate firms' decisions to cooperate with...

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Empirical evidence on the success of R&D co-operation : happy together?

Aschhoff, Birgit (contributor); Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2006

In this paper we analyse the effect of R&D co-operation on firms’ innovation performance. We investigate the effect of past co-operation on current sales of innovative products, distinguishing between products new to the firm and new to the market, and on cost reductions due to innovative...

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