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Innovation Activities and Business Cycles : Are Trademarks a Leading Indicator?

deGrazia, Charles - 2019

Despite the widespread use of economic information to anticipate changes in business conditions, innovation metrics are not considered to be leading indicators. We argue that aggregate trademark data reflect firm-level choices that can help predict business cycles. In addition to establishing...

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Innovation Budgeting Over the Business Cycle and Innovation Performance

Hud, Martin - 2015

The global economic crisis of 2008/2009 hit many firms hard. Faced with rapidly declining sales and highly uncertain economic prospects, firms had to cut costs and reconsider their business strategies. With respect to innovation, cost cutting often means to stop or underresource innovation...

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Innovation strategies of manufacturing companies during expansions and slowdowns

Kaszowska-Mojsa, Jagoda - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 8 (2020) 4, pp. 47-66

Objective: The aim of the article is to analyse the differentiation in the innovation strategies of the manufacturing companies during economic expansions and slowdowns. Research Design & Methods: The random-effect logistic regression models were used to examine the differentiation of a firm’s...

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Time to Research? The Cyclicality of Time Use in R&D Among Private and Public Sector Workers

Makridis, Christos - 2019

This paper investigates the cyclicality of time allocated towards research and development (R&D) activities. First, using longitudinal micro-data from 2000-2013, I find that time allocated towards research activities is highly procyclical among private sector employees, but countercyclical among...

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Business and Climate Change : Key Challenges in the Face of Policy Uncertainty and Economic Recession

Kolk, Ans; Pinkse, Jonatan - 2009

Climate change is seen as the most pressing environmental problem of our time by many companies, policymakers and other stakeholders. It is currently also at the forefront of attention in view of attempts to conclude a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012. In bail-out plans and...

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Financial distancing : how venture capital follows the economy down and curtails innovation

Howell, Sabrina; Lerner, Joshua; Nanda, Ramana; … - 2020

By comparing patenting among VC-backed firms to the universe of patents filed in the USPTO over the period 1976 …-2019, we document that while patents filed by VC backed firms are of significantly higher quality and economic importance than … the average patent, VC-backed innovation is substantially more procyclical than the broader economy. This is driven early …

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A Hurdle-Rate Theory of Inventive Procyclicality

Audretsch, David B.; Drobetz, Wolfgang; Ernst, Eva Elena; … - 2023

in exploratory search suffer less during high-ERP episodes than those focusing on exploitative search, and patents … causal link between the ERP and patent value …

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Credit Constraints and the Cyclicality of R&D Investment : Evidence from France

Aghion, Philippe - 2010

We use a French firm-level panel data set over the period 1993-2004 to analyze the relationship between credit constraints and firms' R&D behavior over the business cycle. Our main results can be summarized as follows: (i) the share of R&D investment over total investment is countercyclical...

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R&D behavior of German manufacturing companies during the 2008/09 recession

Eickelpasch, Alexander - 2014

This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 gave it up in the following year. Some companies...

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Financial Management Appraisal of U.S. Administration Non-Keynesian Approach to Tackle Recession : Overemphasis on Employment of High Skilled-Cum-Aged Labour (Forming Minority) at...

Swamy, M. R. K. - 2012

Inasmuch as the U.S. economy has been very slow in recovery from deep recession with unemployment hovering around 9 per cent due to the non-keynesian approach of the U.S. administration which has overemphasised on recruitment of high-skilled-cum-aged labour (forming the minority) at the expense...

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