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thanks to their ability in undertaking technological innovation, few empirical studies have explicitly addressed this issue …. This article examines the innovation-employment nexus for start-ups using the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), a unique … regressions indicate an overall positive but heterogeneous effect of innovation activities on the conditional employment growth …
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This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
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-efficiency gains from better management of the production processes, inventories, supply-chain, product distribution, and timing of … innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization … investments ; competitive advantage ; production management ; supply-chain management …
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conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. In Germany, there is a diversity of overall well …-funded technology-neutral and technology-specific programs providing grants to R&D and innovation projects. Different types of SMEs … access public funding for R&D and innovation activities to varying degrees. Using an extensive sample of 2,700 German SMEs …
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In the presence of asymmetric information, economic agents need to communicate their quality to investors and other parties. While much of the literature focuses exclusively on signaling, we develop a conceptual framework that extends this view with elements of the literature on certification....
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technologies and between production facilities such as machines, products, devices, and online content for the purpose of … automating complex business and production processes with the help of artificial intelligence. Industry 4.0-specific features … such as real-time capability, interoperability as well as horizontal and vertical integration of production systems are …
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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 … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …
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conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. In Germany, there is a diversity of overall well …-funded technology-neutral and technology-specific programs providing grants to R&D and innovation projects. Different types of SMEs … access public funding for R&D and innovation activities to varying degrees. Using an extensive sample of 2,700 German SMEs …
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Following Foucault's analysis of German Neoliberalism (Ordoliberalism) and his thesis of ambiguity, this paper introduces a two-level distinction between individual and regulatory ethics. In particular, its aim is to reassess the importance of individual ethics in the conceptual framework of...
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