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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs
Rammer, Christian; Schmiele, Anja - 2008
This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle … qualified labour expels production of new products. R&D activities abroad and exports of new products spur firm growth in the …
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Predicting recession probabilities with financial variables over multiple horizons
Fornari, Fabio; Lemke, Wolfgang - 2010
-used probit approach, but the dynamics of regressors are endogenized using a VAR. The combined model is called a ‘ProbVAR’. At any … the same time, the ProbVAR is as easy to implement as traditional probit regressions. The slope of the yield curve turns …
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The Interplay of Organizational Demography and Institutional Change
Beck, Nikolaus; Meyer, Mark - 2005
Our paper analyzes the interplay of organizational demography with the propensity to adopt an innovative practice. In particular, we examine how the demographical composition of professional German football teams influenced the adoption of the chain-defense-system (?Viererkette?) as well as the...
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On the Profitability of Innovative Assets
Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2004
Successful innovative activity is a major contribution to the intangible capital of firms. Although its importance is generally acknowledged, the contribution to companies? profits is a priori unclear. We present the results of an empirical study on the effects of the patent stock on...
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Capital Control, Debt Financing and Innovative Activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2004
The present paper first discusses theoretically the different incentives of manager- versus owner-controlled firms for investment into innovative activity. In addition, the role of debt financing is analyzed. Subsequently the results from an empirical study on the determinants of innovative...
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The Link Between Firms? Innovation Decision and the Business Cycle: An Empirical Analysis
Heger, Diana - 2004
additionally for SMEs. To this end firms? innovation decisions are considered. The decision to innovate in one period is modelled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297408
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Die Wirkungsanalyse staatlicher Förderprogramme durch den Einsatz von Matching- und Selektionsmodellen am Beispiel der Fertigungstechnik
Fier, Andreas; Heger, Diana; Hussinger, Katrin - 2005
Mit dem Ziel die technologische Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu steigern, investieren die Staaten der OECD jährlich beträchtliche Summen in die Förderung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten (FuE). Angesichts knapper öffentlicher Budgets ist der Effektivität und Effizienz dieser Förderung...
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Evaluating the Impacts of Subsidies on Innovation Activities in Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Radić, Dubravko - 2005
Innovations are a key factor to ensure the competitiveness of establishments as well as to enhance the growth and wealth of nations. But more than any other economic activity, decisions about innovations are plagued by failures of the market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been...
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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2005
This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at the firm?level to a very large extent. Using a dynamic...
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R&D cooperation and R&D intensity: theory and micro-econometric evidence for german manufacturing industries
Kaiser, Ulrich; Licht, Georg - 1998
This paper develops a three stage oligopoly game for R&D cooperation, R&D expenditure and product market competition. In the first stage, firms decide whether or not to conduct R&D in cooperation with other firms. In the second stage the level of R&D investment is determined. Finally, firms...
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