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Works councils, training activities and innovation: A study of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - 2014

establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm's total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when … we consider only generalized training and innovation. Finally, no significant relation is found between training …

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Do firms benefit from complementarity effect in R&D and what drives their R&D strategy choices?

Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - 2014

This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...

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Firms' Differential Innovative Success and Market Dynamics

Cantner, Uwe - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper deals with innovative activities of firms, the resulting market success as well as the interdependencies between both. In a first theoretical part, different cases of those interdependencies are investigated by the way of a simple model based on replicator dynamics. It is shown that...

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Competition in product design: An experiment exploring innovation behavior

Cantner, Uwe; Güth, Werner; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We experimentally investigate competition in innovation in a patent race scenario. Pairs of subjects compete as seller … firms on a duopoly market, engaging in risky search investments. Successful innovation is rewarded through temporary …

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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success: an empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (Mannheim Innovation Panel), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …

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Competition in Innovation and Imitation - A Theoretical and Experimental Study -

Cantner, Uwe; Güth, Werner; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

For given product specifications by two competing firms the demand levels are determined by a randomly generated ideal composition of aspects. Firms can vary some or all aspects of these products, based on information about own (and other's) previous demand. Although the product space is much...

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On regional innovator networks as hubs for innovative ventures

Cantner, Uwe; Wolf, Tina - 2016

At least since Schumpeter published his work "The Theory of Economic Development" (1912), a wide body of literature has focused on the evolutionary process behind firm growth and survival. Recently a growing interest is devoted to the variable "location" as a critical factor, shaping firm...

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Knowledge and Creative Destruction over the Industry Life Cycle - The Case of the German Automobile Industry

Cantner, Uwe; Dreßler, Kristina; Krüger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper investigates how the survival of firms over the industry life cycle is affected by different kinds of knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity. Therefore, a statistical survival analysis is performed for the German...

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Determinants influencing the choice of a cooperation partner

Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper provides empirical tests of hypotheses of cooperative behavior provided by evolutionary approaches in the resource-based view of the firm. The influences of "technological proximity", individual incentives to cooperate and managerial tools to the choice of research partner are...

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Knowledge Compensation in the German Automobile Industry

Cantner, Uwe; Dreßler, Kristina; Krüger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Knowledge is one of the most important determinants in single-industry studies of firm survival over the life cycle. Different kinds of knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity positively influence the survival chances of firms....

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