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The discussion paper summarizes the results of a workshop that focussed on the institutional foundations of innovation … in China's Business System', 'Recent Changes to Korea's Innovation Governance', 'Standardization and Institutional …
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Germany has had an extremely low growth performance since 1995. The paper looks at the long-run reasons for this loss of economic dynamics besides German unification: These include leaving labor idle, a declining share of investment in GDP, a weaker innovative activity, an ineffective system for...
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into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on … innovation. There is partial support for the hypothesis that firms in a more pro-business environment invest more in innovation …
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This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...
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firm productivity and export decision are closely related to its innovation ac- tivity. Product innovation may play a … more important role in the decision to start exporting, while the decision for process innovation may be triggered by … success- ful exporting. This suggests that the causality between innovation and exporting may run from product innovation to …
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The discussion paper summarizes the results of a workshop that focussed on the institutional foundations of innovation … in China's Business System', 'Recent Changes to Korea's Innovation Governance', 'Standardization and Institutional …
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particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from … and innovation arising from UK R&D is of a high but, compared to their German counterparts, UK firms often fail to …
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