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Can Institutional Change Impact High-Technology Firm Growth?: Evidence from Germany's Neuer Markt

Elston, Julie Ann; Audretsch, David B. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

and innovation within the German economy... …

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KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION UNDER PATENTASYMMETRIC FIRMS

Mukherjee, Arijit; Uday Bhanu Sinha - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics; … - 2005

We show that if patent protection and trade secrecy generate asymmetricmarket structure, an innovator may prefer patent protection than trade secrecy even ifthe diffusion probability is higher under the former but it increases marketconcentration by preventing some imitators...

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Gains and Pains from Contract Research : A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Grimpe, Christoph; Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

Determining the research and development (R&D) boundaries of the firm as the choicebetween internal, collaborative and external technology acquisition has since long been amajor challenge for firms to secure a continuous stream of innovative products or processes.While research on R&D...

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Motives for Innovation Co-operation Evidence from theCanadian Survey of Innovation

Schmidt Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sectorto co-operate on innovation projects …. Our focus is on the motives behind this decisionand the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation … activities,which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from theCanadian Survey of Innovation 2005 we find …

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The role of technology in M&As : a firm-level comparison of cross-border and domestic deals

Frey, Rainer; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim> - 2006

Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of mergeractivities. This paper analyzes the role of technology in mergers and acquisitions(M&As) at the firm level. Based on a newly created data set that combines financialinformation and patent data for public limited...

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Trade Liberalisation, Process and Product Innovation, and Relative Skill Demand

Braun, Sebastian - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2006

The interaction between trade liberalisation, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand is analysed in … substitutability of their products through additional investment in product innovation. The paper also shows that the relative demand …

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Auf der Suche nach der nationalenInnovationskultur Deutschlands -die Etablierung der Verfahrenstechnik in der BRD/DDR seit 1950

Pieper, Christine; Handel, Kai Christian - Technische Universität <Freiberg> / Fachbereich … - 2003

The role of universities in the system of innovation changed dramatically in the last fifty years. This observation is … the GDR but did not guarantee the success of the system of innovation.This study examines the process of discipline … is posed: To what degree did the two political systems lead to a different approach of the disciplines towards innovation …

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Do Regional Systems ofInnovation Matter?

Fritsch, Michael - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2003

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical … of these issues the concept of a regional innovation system is presented in some detail and an overview of results from … recent research on regional innovation systems is given. The paper then discusses basic policy options and names a number of …

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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMES: Creation of Knowledge but no Creation of Value

Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

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Knowledge sourcing:legitimacy deficits for MNC subsidiaries?

Schmidt, Tobias; Sofka, Wolfgang - Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungszentrum <Frankfurt, Main> - 2009

Multinational corporations (MNC) search increasingly for lead market knowledge andtechnological expertise around the globe. We investigate whether their subsidiaries gainaccess to these valuable sources of host country knowledge to the same degree as domesticrivals. We develop a theoretical...

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