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Integration and Reorganisation of Industrial R&D: Deficits and Perspectives of Empirical Research
Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and widespread integration project to ensure that a company?s innovative capabilities are carried forward into the future. Previous research has shown, however, that the combined...
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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany: Do Organizational Measures Matter? A Discrete Choice Analysis at the Firm Level
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
Based on a unique firm level data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper provides new empirical evidence regarding the determinants of different types of environmental technological innovations. We examine particularly the effects of environmental organizational measures such as...
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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis
Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....
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Do Shorter Product Cycles Induce Patent Thickets?
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
The traditional argument that shorter product cycles favor trade secret over patenting is reviewed. A game theoretic model provides an argument that shorter product cycles can induce firms to file more patent applications. The firms may be trapped in a prisoners' dilemma where all firms would...
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Costs and benefits of inter-departmental innovation collaboration
Cuijpers, Maarten; Guenter, Hannes; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been … manufacturing firms we show inter-departmental innovation collaboration to increase process innovation performance, but also to … produce costs in terms of project delay and project termination. These costs, however, do not affect innovation performance at …
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The Diffusion of Mobile Telecommunications Services in the European Union
Gruber, H.; Verboven, F.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998
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Design of Web Questionnaires : A Test for Number of Items per Screen
Das, Marcel; van soest, arthur; Toepoel, V. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005
This paper presents results from an experimental manipulation of one versus multiple-items per screen format in a Web survey.The purpose of the experiment was to find out if a questionnaire s format influences how respondents provide answers in online questionnaires and if this is depending on...
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Language Skills and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in the Netherlands
van Ours, Jan; Yao, Y. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015
. Our paper investigates how these prob-<br/>lems affect their labor market performance in terms of employment, hours of …
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Corporate taxation and the quality of research and development
Ernst, Christof; Richter, Katharina; Riedel, Nadine - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper examines the impact of tax incentives on corporate research and development (R&D) activity. Traditionally, R&D tax incentives have been provided in the form of special tax allowances and tax credits. In recent years, several countries moreover reduced their income tax rates on R&D...
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