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Small and medium-sized firms frequently are viewed as the drivers of radical innovation. However, they often do not have the focus and commitment necessary for improving and extending the innovation, tasks better accomplished by routinized large firms. Using a uniquely rich industry-level data...
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Wirtschaftswachstum in Deutschland und international eine neue Dynamik entfaltet. Helge Dauchert, Dietmar Harhoff und Patrick Llerena … Deutschland im Jahr 2008 auf etwa 13% des BIP belief. Generell sehen die Autoren durchaus Potenzial für eine stärkere … Beschaffungswesens in Deutschland und fehlender Anreize für die Beschaffungsverantwortlichen zum Einkauf innovativer Leistungen häufig …
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This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
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Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
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The idea of an industrial policy that promotes large businesses - heavyweights - as the best way to compete in a globalized world has become, again, en vogue among European politicians. The only apparent controversy about the idea revolves around whether it is better to promote national...
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Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both incumbent workers' knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to implement them. Both of these knowledge-based...
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This paper takes a different perspective toward the escape entry incentive of incumbent firms to innovate. New entrants spawned from incumbents are not necessarily a threat; they can complement incumbents' production by commercializing knowledge incumbents are not willing or able to exploit....
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In der letzten Welle des ifo Innovationstests wurde erstmals ein Fragenkomplex zum Kooperationsverhalten von Unternehmen im Innovationsprozess aufgenommen. Erste deskriptive Auswertungen zeigen erhebliche Unterschiede zwischen Unternehmensgrößenklassen, Regionen und Branchen. Kleinere und...
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Wirtschaftswachstum in Deutschland und international eine neue Dynamik entfaltet. Helge Dauchert, Dietmar Harhoff und Patrick Llerena … Deutschland im Jahr 2008 auf etwa 13% des BIP belief. Generell sehen die Autoren durchaus Potenzial für eine stärkere … Beschaffungswesens in Deutschland und fehlender Anreize für die Beschaffungsverantwortlichen zum Einkauf innovativer Leistungen häufig …
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