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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success - an empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 ("Mannheim Innovation Panel"), we pair firms applying knowledge management with twin firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980453
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Product variety and price strategy in the ski manufacturing industry
Corrocher, Nicoletta; Guerzoni, Marco - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The present paper aims at examining the role of variety in the ski manufacturing industry and its relevance in firms' price setting strategies. In particular, it intends to investigate and empirically test two hypotheses concerning the relation between variety and prices. The first concerns the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090566
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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 impact of market size and users' sophistication on innovation: the patterns of demand and the technology life cycle
Guerzoni, Marco - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The aim of this paper is an investigation on the role of demand in industrial dynamics. Despite the decades-long debate on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where demand is conceived as a peculiar blend of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090572
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Technological and geographical patterns in the choice of cooperation partner
Meder, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
the impact of technological and geographical proximity on the choice of the cooperation partner. Patents that were filed … cooperation probability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090577
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Determinants influencing the choice of a cooperation partner
Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper provides empirical tests of hypotheses of cooperative behavior provided by evolutionary approaches in the resource-based view of the firm. The influences of "technological proximity", individual incentives to cooperate and managerial tools to the choice of research partner are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105646
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Corruption and Innovation: A Grease or Sand relationship?
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity. Particularly with respect to the African continent that is striving to reconcile with instability and poverty, this issue seems to be of utmost importance. Using a newly available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090534
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Innovator networks and regional knowledge base
Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas; Wal, Anne ter - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper concerns the regional innovation system approach. It deals with the characteristics of three regional systems, Northern Hesse, Alpes-Maritime and Jena, and focusses on each regional network of innovators. In this context the importance of the size and homogeneity of a regional pool of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090468
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The Bright and Dark Side of Cooperation for Regional Innovation Performance
Broekel, Tom; Meder, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Studies analyzing the importance of intra- and inter-regional cooperation for regional innovation performance are … mainly of qualitative nature and focus strongly on the positive effects that high levels of cooperation can yield. For the …-empirical analysis taking into account the possibility of negative effects related to regional lock-in, lock-out, and cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090564
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The Impact of Government Procurement Composition on Private R&D Activities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous innovation sizes. Government demand in high-tech industries...
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