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Fishing for Complementarities : Competitive Research Funding and Research Productivity

Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014

This paper empirically investigates complementarities between different sources of research funding with regard to academic publishing. We find for a sample of UK engineering academics that competitive funding is associated with an increase in ex-post publications but that industry funding...

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Innovation, Competition and Incentives for R&D

Woerter, Martin - 2013

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …

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Drivers for International Innovation Activities in Developed and Emerging Countries

Schmiele, Anja - 2013

distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform … paper is to show how internal firm capabilities as well as external forces from the firm’s business and national innovation … environment impact on the firm's decision to carry out different innovation activities abroad. The analysis is based on around …

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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 …

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The Importance of Equity Finance for R&D Activity - are There Differences between Young and Old Companies?

Müller, Elisabeth - 2014

This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the Ramp;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...

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Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength

Peters, Bettina - 2016

This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from...

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The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius; Thorwarth, Suzanne - 2013

Many studies investigate the relationship between R&D expenditures as an input and patents as an intermediate product or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions has been underestimated in the literature, as scholars...

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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs

Rammer, Christian; Schmiele, Anja - 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 … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …

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Motives for Innovation Co-Operation - Evidence from the Canadian Survey of Innovation

Schmidt, Tobias - 2015

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sector to co-operate on innovation … innovation activities, which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from the Canadian Survey of Innovation …

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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data

Kraft, Kornelius; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2014

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …

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