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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany: Do Organizational Measures Matter? A Discrete Choice Analysis at the Firm Level

Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004

realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation. …

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On the Profitability of Innovative Assets

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2004

Successful innovative activity is a major contribution to the intangible capital of firms. Although its importance is generally acknowledged, the contribution to companies? profits is a priori unclear. We present the results of an empirical study on the effects of the patent stock on...

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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004

The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - 2004

innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation …

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Capital Control, Debt Financing and Innovative Activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2004

innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …

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License Expenditures of Incumbents and Potential Entrants: An Empirical Analysis of Firm Behavior

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2005

variables the motives for innovation expenditures are also taken into account. We differentiate between firms which intend to …

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Global Idea Sourcing: An Empirical Investigation into the Mechanisms Behind the Usage of Foreign Business Sources for Innovation

Sofka, Wolfgang - 2005

for innovation at home. We suggest a combination of three factors to identify and explain such innovation strategies … customers as a source for innovation that is more beneficial to standardized products and becomes more feasible if the lead … regulation. Hence, companies optimize or augment their innovation activities by invoking ideas from foreign suppliers. Then again …

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Lost in Translation: Empirical Evidence for Liability of Foreignness as a Barrier to Knowledge Spillovers

Sofka, Wolfgang; Schmidt, Tobias - 2006

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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The Importance of Equity Finance for R&D Activity: Are There Differences Between Young and OldCompanies?

Mueller, Elisabeth; Zimmermann, Volker - 2006

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

Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006

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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