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Knowledge Flows and R&D Co-operation: Firm-level Evidence from Germany

Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We also investigate firms? decisions to cooperate with...

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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms …

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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs

Schmiele, Anja; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R&D, design, production and sales of new products, and...

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The Importance of Equity Finance for R&D Activity: Are There Differences Between Young and OldCompanies?

Zimmermann, Volker; Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&D activity of small and medium-sized enterprises. We use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as instrument to control for endogeneity, we find...

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Did Concentration on Core Competencies Drive Merger and Acquisition Activities in the 1990s? Empirical Evidence for Germany

Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

In the context of increasing globalization of markets, merger and acquisition activities in the 1990s are said to be driven by reorganization processes with respect to concentration on firms? core competencies in order to increase or maintain market power in international markets. This paper...

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Good enough! Are socially responsible companies the more successful environmental innovators?

Reif, Christiane; Rexhäuser, Sascha - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

The link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and financial performance of firms has been … strategies generates a higher financial performance than the application of one or none of the strategies. We analyse if … environmental innovators can generate higher financial performance by signalling their environmental engagement through CSR. For …

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