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Auswirkungen der Wirtschaftskrise auf die Innovationstätigkeit der Unternehmen in Deutschland
Rammer, Christian - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 80 (2011) 3, pp. 13-34
The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D...
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The impact of regulation-driven environmental innovation on innovation success and firm performance
Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory … product and process innovations driven by environmental regulation generate similar success in terms of sales with new … products and cost savings as other innovations do. However, we find different effects when looking on the field of …
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Resource allocation flexibility for innovation performance: The effects of breadth, uncertainty, and selectiveness
Klingebiel, Ronald; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Our study shows empirically that the choice of resource allocation strategy affects innovation performance. A policy of allocating resources to a broader range of innovation projects increases sales of new products, especially if these are truly novel, i.e. new to the market. The effect of...
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Auswirkungen der Wirtschaftskrise auf die Innovationstätigkeit der Unternehmen in Deutschland
Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Die schwere Wirtschaftskrise 2008/09 hatte substanzielle Auswirkungen auf die Innovationstätigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft. Die Umsatz- und Gewinneinbußen führten zu einem kräftigen Rückgang der Innovationsausgaben. Davon waren primär Investitionen für neue Produkte und verbesserte...
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Globalisation of Innovation in SMEs: Why They Go Abroad and What They Bring Back Home
Rammer, Christian; Schmiele, Anja - In: Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik) 59 (2008) Supplement, pp. 173-212
This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a large data set of German firms. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R&D, design, production and sales of new products, and implementation of new...
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Innovationen, Anlageinvestitionen und immaterielle Investitionen
Rammer, Christian; Köhler, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
zu Innovationen und die Faktoren, die Innovations- und Investitionsentscheidungen von Unternehmen beeinflussen. Neben dem … sich Innovationsausgaben und Investitionen überschneiden. Multivariate Analysen zu den Innovations- und …
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Buyer power and suppliers' incentives to innovate
Köhler, Christian; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking into account the type of competition in the...
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Innovation als Erfolgsfaktor der deutschen Industrie? Der Beitrag von Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen zu Beschäftigung und Exporten
Rammer, Christian; Peters, Bettina - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 1, pp. 13-36
innovation is disproportionately high in German manufacturing. Product innovations have also been conducive to export performance …
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Protecting innovation through patents and trade secrets: Determinants and performance impacts for firms with a single innovation
Crass, Dirk; Garcia Valero, Francisco; Pitton, Francesco; … - 2016
for the same innovation or for different innovations. Employing firm panel data from Germany, we find fairly few … combining both protection methods yield significantly higher sales with new-to-market innovations. Using only secrecy has …
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The EU 2020 innovation indicator: A step forward in measuring innovation outputs and outcomes?
Janger, Jürgen; Schubert, Torben; Andries, Petra; … - 2016
In October 2013, the European Commission presented a new indicator intended to capture innovation outputs and outcomes and thereby "support policy-makers in establishing new or reinforced actions to remove bottlenecks that prevent innovators from translating ideas into products and services that...
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