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

Faria, Pedro; Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal …

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Knowledge Flows and R&D Co-operation: Firm-level Evidence from Germany

Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We …

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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs

Schmiele, Anja; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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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The Importance of Equity Finance for R&D Activity: Are There Differences Between Young and OldCompanies?

Zimmermann, Volker; Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&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 find...

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Did Concentration on Core Competencies Drive Merger and Acquisition Activities in the 1990s? Empirical Evidence for Germany

Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

In the context of increasing globalization of markets, merger and acquisition activities in the 1990s are said to be driven by reorganization processes with respect to concentration on firms? core competencies in order to increase or maintain market power in international markets. This paper...

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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms

Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - 2012

We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...

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Which design works? A meta-regression analysis of the impacts of R&D tax incentives

Blandinieres, Florence; Steinbrenner, Daniela; Weiß, Bernd - 2020

A growing interest in R&D tax incentives as a way to sustain research and innovation efforts has given rise to a large …

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R&D investment under financing constraints

Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2020

This paper tests for the sensitivity of R&D to financing constraints conditional on restrictions in external financing. Financing constraints of firms are identified by an exogenously calculated rating index. Restrictions in external financing are determined by (i) the specific time period...

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Hiring new key inventors to improve firms' post-M&A inventive output

Arroyabe, M. F.; Hussinger, Katrin; Hagedoorn, John - 2020

Although merger and acquisitions (M&As) are acknowledged as an important means to access innovative assets and know-how, firms' inventive output often declines in the post-M&A period. Financial, managerial and organizational constraints related to the M&A event contribute to inventive output...

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Good enough! Are socially responsible companies the more successful environmental innovators?

Reif, Christiane; Rexhäuser, Sascha - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

intensively examined and debated in academics and politics, but the connection to innovation has so far lacked research attention …

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