Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Lizenzierungsstrategien junger Technologieunternehmen am Beispiel der Biotechnologie. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass Innovationen in verstärktem Maße in Kooperation mit anderen Unternehmen stattfinden und der Lizenzvertrag als einer der wichtigsten...

The broad objective of this study is to examine how assortment factors and category performance are related within the context of specialty retailing. This study formulates two clusters of research questions. The first cluster of research questions focuses on product assortment in general, for...

This paper investigates the R&D persistence of R&D active firms in different markets with different intensities of competition, based on firm-level panel data for the period 1996-2008. In a dynamic setting of the empirical model it turns out that persistence is strongly related to market...

This paper is concerned with fiscal externalities arising from local taxation of a mobile factor. Using a panel of more 1100 local jurisdictions it provides empirical evidence on how the local tax rate as well as the tax rate in the neighborhood affect the local tax base. The results support the...