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R&D Subsidies and Firms’ Cost of Debt
Hottenrott, Hanna; Demeulemeester, Sarah - 2017
Information asymmetry and outcome uncertainty increase the cost of debt for R&D. This study shows that recipients of public R&D grants face lower costs of debt. Immediate effects suggest that quality certification explains this observation. For younger ventures certification is accompanied by...
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Family ownership and effects on firm performance in Asia
Hˆgberg, Andreas - 2010
The current literature on firm ownership around the world shows that concentrated ownership with only one or a few controlling owners is common, especially in many European and Asian countries. The dispersed ownership has proven to be uncommon and even countries with supposed dispersed ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332476
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The geographical dimension of innovation collaboration: Collaboration and innovation in Norway
Fitjar, Rune; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013
choice of innovation partners, the geographical dimension of these partnerships has until fairly recently attracted … education and the open-mindedness of managers. At the firm level, size tends to have a positive effect, but more so for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397494
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Innovation Activities and Financial Performance: The Case of Kosovo
Latifaj, Arbnora - 2018
The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of innovation activities and its determinants on firm performance … relationship between innovation activities and its determinants to firm performance we applied multiple regression analysis and … to our findings for each determinant and its effect on firm performance. By investigating the innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152446
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KNOWLEDGE CREATION IN TEMPORARY REGIONAL NETWORKS
Rutten, Roel; Dessy, Irawati - 2010
innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332406
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Innovation activity in the SMEs: What factors do have effect?
Storhammar, Esa; Tohmo, Timo - 2010
The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …
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Top Team Demographics, Innovation And Business Performance: Findings From English Firms And Cities, 2008-9
Nathan, Max - 2013
information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397296
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The Interplay of Innovation and Market Structure in German Chemical Industry: Theoretical and Emprical Results on a Dynamic Schumpeter Loop
Schubert, Torben - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between innovation activities and market structure in German chemical industry … and innovation. This model is tested on the basis of empirical data on German firms from chemical industry taken from the … Community Innovation Survey from 2005 (CIS 2005). The results indeed show that a decrease in the number of competitors results …
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Competition, imitation, and R&D productivity in a growth model with sector-specific patent protection
Mosel, Malte - 2010
Recent empirical studies find vast industry differences in how patent protection influences innovation and growth. An … the more intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270109
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Heuristic Optimization Methods for Dynamic Panel Data Model Selection. Application on the Russian Innovative Performance
Savin, Ivan; Winker, Peter - 2010
Innovations, be they radical new products or technology improvements are widely recognized as a key factor of economic growth. To identify the factors triggering innovative activities is a main concern for economic theory and empirical analysis. As the number of hypotheses is large, the process...
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