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increasingly shifts from adaptation to innovation development and knowledge-seeking. In addition, international technological …
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significantly positively correlated with innovation in both Japan and the EU. A tentative interpretation might be that a rise in … Gesamtpatentaktivität. Ich komme zum Ergebnis, dass Energiepreise keinen signifikanten positiven Effekt auf die Innovation haben. Gegen Ende …. Dies könnte einen eindeutigen Einfluss auf die Innovationsaktivitäten haben. Allerdings stieg in den USA die Innovation …
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This paper incorporates the cost of adjustment between observed and optimal leverage in explaining the variation in firm?s equity or bank-debt financing investments. Using a dynamic adjustment approach identifies the determinants to capital structure between different financial systems. In...
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We introduce a racing model with multiple product generations, product innovation, spin-outs, and licensing. Industry … conditions and innovation characteristics affect who wins the race and who markets the resulting product. Small firms market …
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Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …
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Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
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firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the effects of R&D collaborations on a firm's environmental innovation … a firm's environmental innovation performance. In addition, this paper addresses the question of whether the diversity …
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The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...
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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalized propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the...
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