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Do direct R&D subsidies lead to the monopolization of R&D in the economy?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2010

This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...

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Innovation Success of Non-R&D-Performers : Substituting Technology by Management in SMEs

Rammer, Christian; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - 2015

and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating … successful innovations, inhouse R&D activities may be a particular challenge for SMEs due to high risk exposure, high fixed costs …, high minimum investment and severe financial constraints. SMEs may thus opt for refraining from R&D and relying more on …

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The EU Framework Programs: Are they worth doing?

Dekker, Ronald; kleinknecht, A.H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Using CIS data from the Netherlands, Germany and France we test whether EU Framework programs do have effects on their participants' R&D input and innovative output. From our Heckman selection equations, we conclude that the FPs attract the "elite" of European innovators. The question is...

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Public research and industrial innovations in Germany

Beise, Marian; Stahl, Harald - 1998

This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research at universities, polytechnics and federal research labs on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of public research institutions. In questioning 2,300 companies...

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Empirical essays in the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation

Reinkowski, Janina - 2013

This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...

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Mapping innovative clusters in national innovation systems

Spielkamp, Alfred; Vopel, Katrin - 1998

In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For this we have used a data set of almost 3.000 firms that participated in the first and fifth survey of the Mannheimer Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The...

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Industrial research versus development investment : the implications of financial constraints

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2009

Previous literature provided evidence on financing constraints for investment in R&D activities due to capital market imperfections and special features of R&D investments. Moreover, it has been shown that a shift in capital structure towards more debt, results in a reduction of R&D investments....

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Fracking in Deutschland : eine Option für die Zukunft!

Konrad, Kai A.; Schöb, Ronnie - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 9, pp. 645-650

Deutschland hat nicht unerhebliche Mengen an unkonventionellen Erdgasreserven, die in tiefen Lagen in Schiefergestein gebunden sind. Die Diskussion um die Frage, ob diese beachtlichen Reserven durch moderne Bohr- und Fördertechniken (sogenanntes Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)) gehoben werden...

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What determines the innovative success of subsidized collaborative R&D projects? : Project-level evidence from Germany

Schwartz, Michael; Peglow, Francois; Fritsch, Michael; … - 2010

Systemic innovation theory emphasizes that innovations are the result of an interdependent exchange process between different organizations. This is reflected in the current paradigm in European innovation policy, which aims at the support of collaborative R&D and innovation projects bringing...

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Culture Clash on the Internet

Handel, Jonathan - 2015

The Internet has devalued content to the point where it is often offered at no charge — newspapers, for instance — or widely misappropriated, as with music and movies. Either way, many people expect much of their content to be free. Why is this, how did it happen, and, focusing on music and...

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