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Gains and Pains from Contract Research : A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective
Grimpe, Christoph; Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>
Determining the research and development (R&D) boundaries of the firm as the choicebetween internal, collaborative and external technology acquisition has since long been amajor challenge for firms to secure a continuous stream of innovative products or processes.While research on R&D...
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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective
Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097539
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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective
Grimpe, Christoph; Kaiser, Ulrich - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2008
outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749442
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Long-Run Effects of Public-Private Research Joint Ventures: The Case of the Danish Innovation Consortia Support Scheme
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan Moritz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support scheme that has been maintained by the Danish government since 1995. To cope with identification...
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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobilityfor Industrial Innovation
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
scientistscontribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, inturn, contribute slightly less to … industrial innovation than recent university graduates. Bycontrast, immobile workers add little to the innovative activity of … their employer. We also findthat the contribution of mobile R&D workers to innovation depreciates fairly rapidly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360525
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Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects,and Innovative Activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for thepopulation of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our studydocuments a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and thefirm’s innovative activity. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360529
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Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects, and Innovative Activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003473
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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021639
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Strategic complementarities between different types of ICT-expenditures
Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
Multivariate Tobit models are estimated using German cross?sectional data to test whether strategic complementarities exist between expenditures in four different types of ICT?components. If two ICT?components are complements, they are correlated (provided that agents act rationally)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097572
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Intellectual Property Protection Mechanisms in Research Partnerships
Hertzfeld, Henry R.; Link, Albert N.; Vonortas, Nicholas S. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
A set of U.S.-based companies is investigated regarding the effectiveness of intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) in the formation of research partnerships. Patents are the most frequently used IPPM to protect both background and foreground knowledge in partnerships. Other IPPMs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865114