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Wirtschaftliche Kosten der Cyberspionage für deutsche Unternehmen : Cybersicherheit als Grundvoraussetzung der digitalen Transformation
Engels, Barbara - 2017
Unternehmen als die größte Bedrohung für deutsche Unternehmen und den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland gesehen. Tatsächlich zieht … Technologien kann nur ausgeschöpft werden, wenn Institutio-nen, Unternehmen und Privatpersonen sich auf die Sicherheit ihrer Daten …. Insbesondere die Cyberspionage, also der Diebstahl von relevanten Unternehmensdaten und geistigem Eigentum, macht Unternehmen zu …
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To be financed or not ... : the role of patents for venture capital financing
Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
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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To be financed or not … : the role of patents for venture capital financing
Häussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
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 uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848824
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Determinants of drug launch delay in pre-TRIPS India : a survival analysis approach
Bhaduri, Saradindu; Brenner, Thomas - 2011
The dynamics of drug launch has been an under-researched area. Most of the studies in this field focus on developed countries, quite uniform in terms of disease profile and regulatory framework, and analyse whether stringency in regulation influences launch delay. Developing countries, in...
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Should R&D champions be protected from foreign takeovers?
Bertrand, Olivier (contributor) - 2008
We analyze how the entry mode of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) affects affiliate R&D activities. Using unique affiliate level data for Swedish multinational firms, we first present empirical evidence that acquired affiliates have a higher level of R&D intensity than greenfield (start-up)...
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Building export capabilities by promoting Inter-firm linkages : Ireland's industrial policy revisited.
Li, Qi; Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara - 2007
For the period 1972-2003 in Ireland we document a persistent decline in traditional import competing and an expansion in exporting plants, within each sector. Yet, the focus of this paper is to explore the vertical linkages between exporting plants and the increasing presence of de novo...
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Absorption of foreign knowledge : firms' benefits of employing immigrants
Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan; Kruse-Becher, Sanne - 2015 - This version: October 2015
This paper explores the question of how immigrant employees affect a firm's capacity to absorb foreign knowledge. Using matched employer-employee data from Denmark for the years 1996 to 2009, we are able to show that non-Danish employees from technologically advanced countries contribute...
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Micro-evidence on the determinants of innovation in the Netherlands : the relative importance of absorptive capacity and agglomeration externalities
Smit, Martijn J.; Abreu, Maria A.; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2010 - Version 21 June 2010
This paper employs firm-level data to analyze the relative importance of firm characteristics and agglomeration externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to estimate the probability that a firm will introduce...
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R&D, patenting and growth : the role of public policy
Westmore, Ben - 2013
This paper uses panel regression techniques to assess the policy determinants of private sector innovative activity – proxied by R&D expenditure and the number of new patents – across 19 OECD countries. The relationship between innovation indicators and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth...
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Knowledge-based capital, innovation and resource allocation
Andrews, Dan; Criscuolo, Chiara - 2013
Investment in knowledge-based capital (KBC) – assets that lack physical embodiment, such as computerised information, innovative property and economic competencies – has been rising significantly. This has implications for innovation and productivity growth and requires new thinking on...
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