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Absorptive Capacity and Innovation: When Is It Better to Cooperate?

Egbetokun, Abiodun; Savin, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...

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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 network structure on knowledge transfer: an application of social network analysis in the context of regional innovation networks

Fritsch, Michael; Kauffeld-Monz, Martina - 2008

We analyze information and knowledge transfer in a sample of 16 German regional innovation networks with almost 300 …

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The extension of clusters: Differences-in-difference evidence from the Bavarian state-wide cluster policy

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Kipar, Stefan - 2008

Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …

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Regional effects on cooperative innovation activities and the related variety of regional knowledge bases

Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - 2009

The literature on Innovation Systems is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition of … effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect … the regional effects on coopera- tive innovation activities. We find evidence that the related variety of knowl- edge …

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Government spending composition in a simple model of Schumpeterian growth

Wiederhold, Simon - 2009

This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We … incentive for private innovation activities. In contrast to the standard Schumpeterian growth framework, we account for industry … heterogeneity in terms of innovation potential. This extension allows to bring government demand policy within the realm of the …

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Success in pharmaceutical research: The changing role of scale and scope economies, spillovers and competition

Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2010

factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R … a project differs in relation to the discovery and development stages of innovation, respectively. Our main finding is … discovery stage of innovation, while in the later development stage, the effects of competition outweigh any benefits from …

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Commercializing inventions from public research: Does speed matter?

Schacht, Alexander - 2012

This study addresses the determinants of time-to-licensing, defined as the elapsed time between the disclosure of an invention and the signed licensing contract, and its impact on the commercial success of the licensed inventions from public research. Using a dataset containing detailed...

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Sectoral R&D intensity and exchange rate volatility: A panel study on economies of the OECD

Mahagaonkar, Prashanth; Schweickert, Rainer; Chavali, … - 2009

A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper …

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Sectoral R&D intensity and Exchange Rate Volatility: A Panel Study on Economies of the OECD

Mahagaonkar, Prashanth; Schweickert, Rainer; Chavali, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper …

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