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Patentportfolio Schweiz. Studie im Auftrag des Staatssekretariats für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation SBFI

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Seliger, Florian; Veseli, Kushtrim; … - 2015

Insgesamt werden in der Schweiz nach Südkorea die meisten Erfindungen/Mio. Einwohner angemeldet. Hinsichtlich der … durchschnittlichen technologischen Qualität der Erfindungen liegt die Schweiz insgesamt in wichtigen Hightech-Industrien und wichtiger … Zeitablauf eher verringert, sodass sich der Wettbewerb verstärkt haben dürfte. Das gilt auch für die Schweiz wichtigen Industrien …

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Creation and Adoption of Energy-related Innovations - the Main Facts

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Peneder, Michael; Rammer, Christian; … - 2016

One of the main goals of the "Energy Strategy 2050" in Switzerland is the exploitation of the existing energy … comparative firm-level study for Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Firms are not only the main source of energy-related innovation …

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Befristete Beschäftigung in der Schweiz: Ausmaß, Determinanten und ökonomische Bewertung im internationalen Vergleich

Henneberger, Fred; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Ziegler, Alexandre - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 37 (2004) 3, pp. 239-267

This study analyses the extent and determinants of temporary employment in Switzerland and performs an evaluation of … employment in Switzerland are similar to those in other countries. It is also noted that, in a cross-national context, the level …

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Taxation and internal migration: evidence from the Swiss census using community-level variation in income tax rates

Liebig, Thomas; Puhani, Patrick A.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2006

Switzerland, whose system of determining tax rates primarily at the community level results in enough variation to permit analysis …

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Performance pay, sorting, and outsourcing

Henneberger, Fred; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Ziegler, Alexandre - 2007

Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variability of compensation are higher at these...

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Does job satisfaction improve the health of workers? New evidence using panel data and objective measures of health

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2007

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addresses two important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a) cross-sectional causality problems and (b)...

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Exploration or exploitation of knowledge from universities: Does it make a difference?

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Wörter, Martin - 2012

In a first step, we developed based on existing theoretical and empirical literature a series of hypotheses with respect to the relative importance of possible determinants of exploration and exploitation of knowledge in collaboration with universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a...

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Impact of external knowledge acquisition strategies on innovation: A comparative study based on Dutch and Swiss panel data

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre; … - 2013

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, buy and cooperate, on firm's product innovation performance. Taking a direct (productivity) approach, we test for...

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The choice of foreign locations of Swiss MNEs

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Hollenstein, Heinz; Stucki, Tobias - 2012

In this paper, the parent firms' choice of FDI locations is analyzed based on a unique firm-level dataset for Swiss MNEs. The data allows a detailed characterization of parent companies, their foreign subsidiaries and the two-way trade flows between parent companies and foreign affiliates. In...

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How Swiss small- and medium-sized firms assess the performance impact of mergers and acquisitions

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Stucki, Tobias - 2012

While previous studies on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) mostly relied on large firms, our study is based on a sample that includes all Swiss M&As that took place in the period 2006-2008, mostly of which have been SMEs. We investigate the firm characteristics that determine the innovation and...

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