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Open Source, ICT infrastructure and firm performance
Cerquera Dussán, Daniel; Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This paper empirically studies the impact of the adoption of open source software (OSS) on firms' labor productivity and innovative behavior. Using a representative sample of German firms, the results show that the adoption of OSS operating systems for servers and general OSS applications has no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615600
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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis
Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957582
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ICT, Innovation and Business Performance in Services: Evidence for Germany and the Netherlands
van der Wiel, Henry; van Leeuwen, George; Hempell, Thomas - 2004
deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297322
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Does Experience Matter? Innovations and the Productivity of ICT in German Services
Hempell, Thomas - 2002
In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297958
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Open Source, ICT infrastructure and firm performance
Cerquera Dussán, Daniel; Müller, Bettina - 2009
This paper empirically studies the impact of the adoption of open source software (OSS) on firms' labor productivity and innovative behavior. Using a representative sample of German firms, the results show that the adoption of OSS operating systems for servers and general OSS applications has no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299934
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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis
Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - 2013
This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311774
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ICT, Innovation and Business Performance in Services: Evidence for Germany and the Netherlands
van der Wiel, Henry; van Leeuwen, George; Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097585
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Does Experience Matter? Innovations and the Productivity of ICT in German Services
Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097592
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Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity, ICT and R&D Incentives
Cequera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - 2008
Firm heterogeneity explains the productivity driven selection mechanism that determines aggregate productivity growth within industries. This paper empirically demonstrates that ICT has a robust impact on firm heterogeneity only when ICT is used intensively and jointly with specific ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298708
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Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity, ICT and R&D Incentives
Cequera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Firm heterogeneity explains the productivity driven selection mechanism that determines aggregate productivity growth within industries. This paper empirically demonstrates that ICT has a robust impact on firm heterogeneity only when ICT is used intensively and jointly with specific ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098063