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Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Innovation : Evidence From Firm-Level Data

Rammer, Christian; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P. - 2021

new business models. This paper analyses the extent to which the use of AI contributes to the innovation performance of …

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Artificial Intelligence and Firm-Level Productivity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. A main feature of new general-purpose technology is to enable new ways of production that may increase productivity. So...

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The Design Paradox : The Contribution of In-House and External Design Activities on Product Market Performance

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Thorwarth, Suzanne - 2009

company performance or innovation outcome. They, however, did not specifically link design to collaborative or externally … firm's innovation performance. To be more precise, we assess the question how market novelties or products which have only … supplement a firm's innovation performance. Moreover, we find that the success of market novelties is driven by design which is …

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Does Professional Knowledge Management Improve Innovation Performance at the Firm Level?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - 2014

how knowledge management influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge …

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Innovation Success of Non-R&D-Performers : Substituting Technology by Management in SMEs

Rammer, Christian; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating successful innovations, inhouse R&D activities may be a...

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Spillovers of Innovation Activities and Their Profitability

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2015

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company possibly benefits from incoming information on successful Ramp;D conducted by other companies, a generally high probability of leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively...

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Exploring the Relationship Between Scientist Human Capital and Firm Performance : The Case of Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurs in the SBIR Program

Toole, Andrew A. - 2014

skills that compose their human capital and how are these skills related to firm performance? This paper examines these … performance that correlate with differences in the scientists' research orientations developed during their academic careers. We … significantly improve their firms' performance of research tasks such as proof of concept studies. Biomedical academic entrepreneurs …

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Capital Control, Debt Financing and Innovative Activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014

The present paper first discusses theoretically the different incentives of manager- versus owner-controlled firms for investment into innovative activity. In addition, the role of debt financing is analyzed. Subsequently the results from an empirical study on the determinants of innovative...

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R&D Investment and Financing Constraints of Small and Medium-Sized Firms

Hottenrott, Hanna - 2013

This study tests for financial constraints on Ramp;D investment and how they differ from capital investment. To identify constraints in the access to external capital, we employ a credit rating index. Our models show that internal constraints, measured by mark-ups, are more decisive for Ramp;D...

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Financial Constraints : Routine Versus Cutting Edge R&D Investment

Hottenrott, Hanna - 2008

We analyze financial constraints for Ramp;D, where we account for heterogeneity among investments which has been neglected in previous literature. According to economic theory, investments should be distinguished by their degree of uncertainty, e.g. routine Ramp;D versus cutting-edge Ramp;D....

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