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Innovationsaktivitäten von kmU im verarbeitenden Gewerbe: Was zeichnet Imitatoren und originäre Innovatoren aus?
Zimmermann, Volker - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
This contribution is concerned with the spread of new products in small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Based on an empirical study it is analyzed according to which factors planned product launches are either genuine market novelties or products that are new from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098257
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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 identified as source of increased coordination costs. Using organizational information processing theory, this paper builds and tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869229
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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
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Profit-sharing and innovation
Aerts, Kris; Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment of the companies to let the employees participate in any efficiency gain. Resistance against technical progress becomes less plausible. Moreover, employees are stimulated to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957731
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Does Work Time Flexibility Work? An Empirical Assessment of the Efficiency Effects for German Firms
Wolf, Elke; Beblo, Miriam - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
In this paper we assess the impact of flexible work time schedules on firm efficiency using representative establishment data for Germany. Following the approach by Battese and Coelli (1995), we estimate a stochastic production frontier and the determinants of technical efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098414
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The value of disclosing IPR to open standard setting organizations
Hussinger, Katrin; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Open standard-setting organizations (SSOs) have emerged as important coordination and diffusion mechanism for information and communication technologies. Open standards are developed non-discriminatorily and licensed to anybody at reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Little is known about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957733
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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability
Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their organizational processes and structures. Starting from complexity theory, we use three consecutive waves of the German part of the Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957583
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985629
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Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises
Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose … SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098138
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More bits - more bucks? Measuring the impact of broadband internet on firm performance
Bertschek, Irene; Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
The paper provides empirical evidence for the causal impact of broadband Internet on the economic performance of German firms. Performance is measured in terms of labour productivity and realised process and product innovations. The analysis refers to the early phase of DSL expansion in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024658