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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

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Young, open and international: the impact of search strategies on the internationalization of new ventures

Zimmermann, Jörg; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the …

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Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Innovation

Vopel, Katrin; Scherer, Frederic M.; Narin, Francis; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997

Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....

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Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries?

Peters, Bettina; Lööf, Hans; Janz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been … found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing … number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …

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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence

Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

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International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the …

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Success breeds success locally: a tale of incubator firms

Inci, Eren - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper focuses on the pre-establishment period of start-ups in industrial districts. The industrial architecture is what I call a "rationed agglomeration" in which some entrepreneurs gather around an established firm while other entrepreneurs in the same business stand alone. In a rationed...

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R&D and Firm Performance in a Transition Economy

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a...

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Die Evolution der bundesdeutschen Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik: Rückblick und Bestandsaufnahme

Fier, Andreas; Harhoff, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

In Deutschland beanspruchen gleich zwei Ressorts, das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) sowie das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) die Zuständigkeit für die deutsche Innovationspolitik. Dieses für den Bund offensichtlich bedeutsame Politikfeld...

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Innovation dynamics and endogenous market structure: econometric results from aggregated survey data

Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

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