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Integration and Reorganisation of Industrial R&D: Deficits and Perspectives of Empirical Research
Grimpe, Christoph - 2005
The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and widespread integration project to ensure that a company?s innovative capabilities are carried forward into the future. Previous research has shown, however, that the combined...
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The performance effect of environmental innovations
Soltmann, Christian; Stucki, Tobias; Wörter, Martin - 2013
such innovations affect performance. To analyse the relationship between green innovation and performance, new industry … results show that green inventions are U-shape related to performance. However, the turning point is quite high and hence only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319715
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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: evidence from Europe's top R&D investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - 2009
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance …
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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2007
The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312284
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Cooperation in R&D and sample selection
Piga, Claudio; Vivarelli, Marco - 2002
This study explicitly takes into account that the decision to enter into a cooperative R&D relationship is related to the antecedent decision to carry out R&D. This calls for a methodological approach that, at the same time, allows the joint analysis of the determinants of the two decisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335716
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Vocational education and productivity in the Swiss business sector: An analysis based on firm-level and industry-level panel data
Arvanitis, Spyros; Bolli, Thomas; Wörter, Martin - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280858
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The Impact of R&D Collaboration Networks on the Performance of Firms and Regions: A Meta-Analysis of the Evidence
Pippel, Gunnar - 2012
investigating the impact of R&D collaboration networks on the innovation performance of firms and regions has developed over the …-intensive interactions have a rather positive impact on the performance of firms and regions. There is also evidence that the employed …
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Locational conditions, cooperation, and innovativeness: evidence from research and company spin-offs
Lejpras, Anna; Stephan, Andreas - 2008
This paper has two goals. First, it analyzes the extent to which the innovativeness of spin-offs, either born from a research facility or from another company, is influenced by locational conditions. Second, it provides evidence on how important local cooperation links are in comparison to...
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The role of R&D in new firm growth
Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - 2009
Innovative start-ups are an important driver of economic growth. This article presents empirical evidence on the effects of R&D on new product development, inter-firm alliances and employment growth during the early life course of firms. We use a dataset that contains a sample of new firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266657
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Regional and technological effects of cooperation behavior
Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - 2008
In this paper we investigate the determinants of cooperative innovation and put our main focus on the regional or spatial and on the technological or sectoral dimension. We suggest a method to disentangle these two factors and to extract differential regional effects. The latter can be used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263863