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Works Councils, Training Activities and Innovation: A Study of German Firms
Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Building on the notion of general and specific human capital proposed by Becker (1962), the paper highlights the importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management and focuses on the role of works councils as a specific...
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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
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Firms' Differential Innovative Success and Market Dynamics
Cantner, Uwe - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
shares and the relation to their respective relative technological performance and to their or innovative performance are … investigated with productivity levels as a proxy for technological performance and productivity changes as proxy for innovative … performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090469
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Do Firms Benefit from Complementarity Effect in R&D and What Drives their R&D Strategy Choices?
Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
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The role of R&D in new firm growth
Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Innovative start-ups are an important driver of economic growth. This article presents empirical evidence on the effects of R&D on new product development, inter-firm alliances and employment growth during the early life course of firms. We use a dataset that contains a sample of new firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090550
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Do We Need National Champions? If So, Do We Need a Champions-Related Industrial Policy? An Evolutionary Perspective
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper discusses the role of so-called national champions within the context of the EU's ambitious goal to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economic region in the world by 2010. We find football to be a useful analogy in our discussion of national champions. There are...
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Optimal Diversity in Investments with Recombinant Innovation
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Structural Change and Economic Dynamics</I>, 2013, 24, 141-156.<P> We address the notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the...</p></i>
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The Pollution Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions: Asymmetry, Disaggregation, and Multilateralism
Swart, Julia; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper studies the impact of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon Dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas. A global problem that requires a multilateral solution. To take this into account we introduce an institutional variable, which...
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Modelling R&D and Innovation Support Systems – Analysis of Regional Cluster Structures in Innovation in Portugal
Vaz, Teresa de Noronha; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper offers a new methodology to identify R&D and innovation clusters, on the basis of a regional analysis of innovation support systems in Portugal. Using a web-based inventory of R&D and innovation agencies, an extensive data base is created. This data set is next analyzed by means of...
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