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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 A.; … - 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 … while both "buy" and "cooperate" have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …
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Vertical educational diversity and innovation performance
Bolli, Thomas; Renold, Ursula; Wörter, Martin - 2015
innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across … regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation …, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, R&D intensity, and product innovation …
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Innovation and firm growth over the business cycle
Spescha, Andrin; Wörter, Martin - 2016
This paper investigates how the macroeconomic business cycle impacts the empirical relation between firms' innovations and their sales growth rates. Based on firm-level panel data over the time period 1995-2014, the paper finds no visible sales growth differentials between firms in booming...
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Educational quality, social media and public accountability : a global perspective
Adegboye, Alex; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa; … - 2021
This inquiry relates to the empirical linkages between educational quality, Facebook penetration and accountability dynamics. The empirical investigation is based on the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique and Quantile regression for the conditional linkages which articulate low, middle, and...
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Tourism and social media in the world : an empirical investigation
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018
The study examines the relationship between tourism and social media from a cross section of 138 countries with data for the year 2012.The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile regressions. Two main findings are established. First, there is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998532
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Social media for health promotion : a visual analysis of "TB Proof" South Africa's Facebook page
Acha-Anyi, Asongu; Acha-Anyi, Paul N.; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2020
Health promotion is an educational tool that can be used to educate and create awareness of health issues through various media forms. The purpose of this study was to explore the use of social media (TB Proof South Africa's Facebook page) in creating tuberculosis (TB) awareness. A qualitative...
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Homicide and social media : global empirical evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
This study investigates the relationship between social media and homicide in a cross section of 148 countries for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit and Quantile regressions. The findings from Ordinary Least Squares and Tobit regressions show a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058452
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Terrorism and social media : global evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Orim, Stella-Maris I.; Nting, Rexon T. - 2019
The study assesses the relationship between terrorism and social media from a cross section of 148 countries with data for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile regressions. The main finding is that there is a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010180
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Social media and inclusive human development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020
This study investigates the relationship between social media and inclusive human development in 49 African countries for the year 2012. Social media is measured with Facebook penetration whereas inclusive human development is proxied by the inequalityadjusted human development index. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181795
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Crime and social media
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Orim, … - 2019
Purpose- The study complements the scant macroeconomic literature on the development outcomes of social media by examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the year 2012. Design/methodology/approach- The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998083