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What Do Chain Store Sales Tell Us about Consumer Spending?

Harris, Ethan S.; Vega, Clara - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1996

[...]This study is the first comprehensive examinationof the value of chain store data as macroeconomic indicators.2 We begin by considering important structuralchanges in the retail sector and their implications for interpretingthe chain store data. We then turn to formal statisticaltests of...

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Lidl Belgium: Revisiting Marks & Spencer on the Branch Level

Kessler, Wolfgang; Eicke, Rolf - Universität <Freiburg, Breisgau> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2008

tax law. Others call the case‘‘Marks & Spencer revisited on the branch level.’’ In fact,both statements are correct. The … question is whetherthe country of the head office must take into accountlosses of a foreign branch, even though the … applicabledouble taxation convention provides for an exemptionof the branch profits in that country. Contrary to Marks& Spencer (C-446 …

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Why is it important for a multinational corporation to hold technological leadership? A technological transfer perspective

Su, Qi - 2002

The paper studies why a corporation hopes to keep technological leadership. The answer is shown by a theoretical model in the perspective of technological transfer. The model consisting of two countries, each of which contains numerous corporations,has pointed out: restrained technological...

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Trade, human capital and innovation - the engines of european regional growth in the 1990s

Badinger, Harald; Tondl, Gabriele - 2002

This paper investigates the growth factors of EU regions in the 1990s. We test the hypothesis that regional growth is determined by endogenous growth factors, trade and technological catching-up in a growth accounting framework....

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Stand und Möglichkeiten zur Weiterentwicklung desTechnologietransfers an der Hochschule Wismar

Sassenberg, Uwe - Hochschule <Wismar> / Fakultät für … - 2004

Wissen und dessen Anwendungerreicht. Reiche Regionen existieren dort, wo innovative Cluster bestehen.Technologietransfer … Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen zu Unternehmen zu„transferieren“. Im ersten Ansatz ist also Technologietransfer eine …

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Technology Transfer Policy on the Periphery

Thomas, Brychan - Welsh Enterprise Institute <Pontypridd> - 2000

The paper reports the views of key policy makers in Industrial South Wales (ISW) who wereinterviewed in the Spring 1999 concerning SMEs and technology transfer networks. A semistructuredinterview procedure was followed involving the use of an interview handbooksupported by interview lists...

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Goldilocks and the licensing firm:Choosing a partner when rivals are heterogeneous

Creane, Anthony; Konishi, Hideo - Boston College / Department of Economics - 2009

We consider how the amount of the technology transferred and the characteristics of the partneraffect licensing. We find that a partial technology transfer can be the joint-profit minimizingtransfer, though under weakly concave demand, a complete transfer always increases joint profitif there...

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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobilityfor Industrial Innovation

Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the privatesector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on thepopulation of Danish firms and their R&D workers for the period 1999-2004 and measureinnovation performance by...

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Technologietransfer durch Unternehmensgründungen - Was man tun und realistischerweise erwarten kann

Fritsch, Michael - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2004

Die Gründung eines innovativen Unternehmens stellt eine Form der kommerziellen Verwer-tung von Wissen dar. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über Ausmaß von Gründungen in wis-sensintensiven bzw. innovativen Branchen und deren Entwicklung. Da die Gründung eines Unternehmens wesentlich durch...

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The Emergence of Indian Multinationals:An Empirical Study of Motives, Status-quo and Trends of Indian Investments in Germany

Tiwari, Rajnish; Herstatt, Cornelius - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2009

Germany has advanced to the position of a key destination for Indian multinational enterprises in their spirited pursuit of growth opportunities overseas. In 2008, Indian firms invested an estimated amount of US$ 1.8 billion in Germany while 16 acquisitions by Indian firms were monitored, up...

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