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Works councils, training activities and innovation : a study of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - 2014

Building on the notion of general and specific human capital proposed by Becker (1962), the paper highlights the importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management and focuses on the role of works councils as a specific...

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Incumbents' asymmetric responses to environmentally friendly entrants in the automotive industry

Diekhof, Josefine; Cantner, Uwe - 2017

In the context of technological change, the influence of innovative entrants on incumbents is considered a major driving force. Using global patent data, we analyze this influence for the case of the transition from combustion engine vehicles towards alternative technology vehicles (ATVs)....

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The role of geographical proximity for project performance : evidence from the German "Leading-Edge Cluster Competition"

Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Hinzmann, Susanne - 2015

performance of these linkages. In this paper we address this underexplored issue and aim to complement the rare examples of …

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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 - 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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Beyond trading : knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains

Graf, Holger; Mohamed, Hoda - 2023

Does exporting intermediate goods induce learning from importers? In this paper, we examine to what extent learning from German industries can be explained by knowledge spillovers, channeled through the export of intermediate goods. Our study is based on a sample of 27 German trade partners in...

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Global knowledge embeddedness

Graf, Holger; Kalthaus, Martin - 2022

Various forms of interaction during the process of research and innovation constitute a global network of knowledge generation and diffusion. Countries and their research organizations and individual scientists need to be embedded in this network to participate in global knowledge ows and to...

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Innovative start-up patenting : a new approach towards identification and determinants

Wolf, Tina - 2013

There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms ́propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...

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Inventor networks in renewable energies : the influence of the policy mix in Germany

Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Herrmann, Johannes; … - 2014

Technological change and gains in efficiency of renewable power generation technologies are to a large extent driven by governmental support. Various policies that can broadly be categorized as technology push, demand pull or systemic constitute a policy mix for renewable energies. Our goal is...

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On social identity, subjective expectations, and the costs of control

Riener, Gerhard; Wiederhold, Simon - 2011

cognitive, that is, belief-related, and a behavioral, that is, performance-related, dimension. We test these theoretical … in performance is less pronounced for in-group agents than for no-group agents. In the case of a negative sensation … amplies the performance-enhancing effect of a positive control surprise and mitigates the detrimental performance effect of a …

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Spinoffs and Entrepreneurial Talent

Shrivastava, Mili - 2010

Spinoffs frms are an important source of industry dynamics and innovation. While an emerging body of literature identifies strategic disagreements and ideas as determinants of spinoffs, neither of them can completely explain the spinoff process. Mere disagreements or brilliant flashes of ideas...

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