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Formal and Strategic Appropriability Strategies of Multinational Firms - A Cross Country Comparison

Faria, Pedro - 2015

International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic of discussion among academics and practitioners. Most research in this field focuses on knowledge sharing activities of MNC subsidiaries. Relatively little is known about their...

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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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International Cooperation on Innovation : Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

Schmidt, Tobias - 2014

In this paper we investigate the factors that lead firms to cooperate with partners from foreign countries on innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the...

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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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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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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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Global Sensing and Sensibility - a Multi-Stage Matching Assessment of Competitive Advantage from Foreign Sources of Innovation

Sofka, Wolfgang - 2013

We focus on one of the core competitive capabilities of modern firms: the ability to deliver successful innovations in a globalized environment. Companies literally find themselves confronted with a world of ideas. The challenge remains to decide which impulses should be on top of the list and...

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Lost in Translation Empirical Evidence for Liability of Foreignness as Barriers to Knowledge Spillovers

Schmidt, Tobias - 2011

Entering host country networks of knowledge flows (new competencies, innovative technologies, and lead-market knowledge) is a major rationale of multinational firms for investing abroad. Foreign firms find it difficult to overcome cultural and social barriers which make their foreign engagements...

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ICT, Consulting and Innovative Capabilities

Cerquera, Daniel - 2009

This paper analyzes the impact of the decision to contract ICT consulting on firms' innovative incentives. The paper develops a theoretical model and estimates some of its implications for a sample of German firms. In particular, the paper estimates the average treatment effect of the decision...

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