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Demand forces of technical change evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry : conference paper

Beerli, Andreas; Weiss, Franziska; Zilibotti, Fabrizio; … - 2013

This paper investigates the effect of market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in … increase in labour productivity by 6.5% and an increase in the likelihood of a successful product innovation by about 1 …

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Do eco-innovations need specific regional characteristics? : an econometric analysis for Germany ; conference paper

Horbach, Jens - 2013

The theoretical and empirical innovation literature stresses the importance of regional fac-tors and locational … conditions for location choice of firms and their innovation success. Innovation activities are not equally distributed in space … because agglomeration effects and specific regional infrastructures may promote innovation success. Concerning environmentally …

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Policy-induced environmental technology and inventive efforts : is there a crowding out? ; conference paper

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2013 - This version, January 2013

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating … of the firms R&D and total innovation expenditures net of those costs due to the environmental innovation. The estimated … number of R&D projects and investments in non-innovation-related assets. Likewise, for firms with subsidy …

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Taxation, innovation and entrepreneurship : conference paper

Gersbach, Hans; Schetter, Ulrich; Schneider, Maik T. - 2013 - This version: February 2013

We examine how basic research should be financed. While basic research is a public good benefiting innovating entrepreneurs it also affects the entire economy: occupational choices of potential entrepreneurs, wages of workers, dividends to shareholders, and aggregate output. We show that the...

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Schumpeter in a matrix: a Stock Flow Consistent analysis of technological change

Caiani, Alessandro; Godin, Antoine; Lucarelli, Stefano - 2012

. These boom and bust cycles are inherent to the rise innovation. Our paper analyses innovation cycles in a stock flow …. Above all, the role of financial-innovation nexus is underlined. The paper builds the grounds for a wider analysis of …

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Growing, innovating, convincing, approving: intellectual stimuli from Adam Smith

Rampa, Giorgio - 2009

, innovation and economic evolution. In particular, by going back to the History of Astronomy, the First Formation of Languages and ….e. by dissatisfaction with some existing order; however imagination (that is, innovation) can only be successful if it is …

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Complementary patents and market structure

Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2008

complements problem but not the double mark-up problem. Vertical integration discourages entry and reduces innovation incentives …, while horizontal integration always encourages entry and innovation. …

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How licensing resolves hold-up : evidence from a dynamic panel data model with unobserved heterogeneity

Siebert, Ralph; Graevenitz, Georg von - 2006

In a patent thicket licensing provides a mechanism to either avoid or resolve hold-up. Firms' R&D incentives will differ depending on how licensing is used. In this paper we study the choice between ex ante licensing to avoid hold-up and ex post licensing to resolve it. Building on a theoretical...

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The importance of equity finance for R&D activity : are there differences between young and old companies?

Müller, Elisabeth; Zimmermann, Volker - 2006

This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&D activity of small and medium-sized enterprises. We use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as instrument to control for endogeneity, we find...

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Does quality make a difference? : employment effects of high- and low-quality start-ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation to sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...

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