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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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Russian Firms in Transition: Champions, Challengers, and Chaff

Linz, Susan J. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1996

This paper proposes a composite measure to evaluate a firm's survival potential. The composite measure is applied to 51 Russian firms located in Moscow, Volgograd, Rostov and Taganrog, utilizing data collected in 1995 from in-depth interviews with top-level managers of manufacturing, trade, and...

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XTENDING LIKAGES BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: A CASE STUDY OF THE CELEBRITY-CONSTRUCTION OF A CHINESE MARKETPLACE

Jacobs, Mark - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2009

This paper examines the emergence of firm-celebrity, both an intangible-asset, and a facilitator of competitive advantage. Institutional approaches have asserted that organizations from the same organizational field and characterized by comparable structural positions face similar structural...

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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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Does Market Structure Matter? New Evidence from Russia

Brown, Annette N.; Brown, J. David - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

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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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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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