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Experimental evidence on the effects of innovation contests
Brueggemann, Julia; Meub, Lukas - 2015
Economic research on innovation has long discussed which policy instruments best foster innovativeness in individuals and organizations. One of the instruments easily accessible to policy-makers is innovation contests; however, there is ambiguous empirical evidence concerning how such contests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285459
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An integrated analysis of the impact of gender diversity on innovation and productivity in manufacturing firms : prepared for the institutions for development sector
Gallego, Juan Miguel; Gutiérrez Urdaneta, Luis H. - 2018
This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … innovation might arise because more dynamic and innovative managers, knowing the value of gender diversity, may also hire more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882005
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The effectiveness of public subsidies for private innovations : an experimental approach
Brüggemann, Julia - 2015
The effects of public subsidies in supporting private innovative activity is subject to longstanding political and scientific debates. Since the empirical findings remain largely inconclusive, this study adds to this debate with counterfactual evidence from a laboratory experiment. In a creative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011383126
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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams : an experimental study
Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225967
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The effectiveness of public subsidies for private innovations : an experimental approach
Brüggemann, Julia; Proeger, Till - 2017 - Revised Version February 2017
The effects of public subsidies in supporting innovative activity is subject to long-standing debates. Since empirical findings remain largely inconclusive, this study adds to this debate with counterfactual evidence from a laboratory experiment. In a creative real effort task simulating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600268
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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study
Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212370
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Intellectual property rights hinder sequential innovation : experimental evidence
Brüggemann, Julia; Crosetto, Paolo; Meub, Lukas; … - 2015
In this paper we contribute to the discussion on whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by means of a laboratory experiment. We introduce a novel Scrabble-like creativity task that captures most essentialities of a sequential innovation process. We use this task to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459647
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Social Preferences and Agricultural Innovation : An Experimental Case Study from Ethiopia
Kebede, Bereket; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2015
We run an experiment in Ethiopia where farmers can use their own money to decrease the money of others (money burning). The data support the prediction from an inequality aversion model based on absolute income differences; but there is no support for an inequality aversion model based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014131778
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Inventions and their commercial exploitation in academic institutions : analysing determinants among academics
Bijediæ, Teita; Chlosta, Simone; Werner, Arndt - 2016
factors affect the innovation and knowledge transfer activities of male and female academics. We show that Gender differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533775
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Literature review on fundamental concepts and definitions, objectives and policy goals as well as instruments relevant for socio-ecological transition
Dimitrova, Anna; Hollan, Katarina; Laster, Daphne; … - 2013
The research project WWWforEurope undertakes to lie the theoretical and empirical foundations for the embarkment on a new socio-ecological growth path in Europe. The new path underlines the need to guarantee Welfare as a broad universal principle for its population, assuring economic and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431693