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Co-determination and innovation
Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
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The Merits of New Pollutants and How to Get Them When Patents Are Granted
Perino, Grischa - 2006
The performance of market based environmental regulation is affected by patents and vice versa. This interaction is …
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Do Shorter Product Cycles Induce Patent Thickets?
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - 2008
The traditional argument that shorter product cycles favor trade secret over patenting is reviewed. A game theoretic model provides an argument that shorter product cycles can induce firms to file more patent applications. The firms may be trapped in a prisoners' dilemma where all firms would...
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R&D Productivity and Firm Size in Semiconductors and Pharmaceuticals: Evidence from Citation Yields
Dindaroğlu, Burak - 2011
important and R&D-intensive industries: Semiconductors and Pharmaceuticals. I employ two measures of a firm's R&D performance …
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Does Mobility Increase the Productivity of Inventors?
Hoisl, Karin - 2007
inventors has so far hardly discussed the impact of a move on inventive performance. Additionally, existing research has … different points of the performance distribution. Additionally, dummy variables are used to compare inventive performance prior … and in the aftermath of a move. Results reveal that inventors at the upper end of the performance distribution are better …
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Tracing Mobile Inventors – The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity
Hoisl, Karin - 2006
This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external sources of knowledge, on the contrary, has a significant effect on productivity. Finally, firm...
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Auslandsforschung deutscher Unternehmen: kaum Belege für Abwanderung
Belitz, Heike; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 46, pp. 725-731
Die Analyse der Patentanmeldungen deutscher Unternehmen am Europäischen Patentamt zeigt: Die Unternehmen lenken ihre Forschungsaktivitäten im Ausland vor allem in die Hochtechnologiebereiche, in denen sie seit langem besonders intensiv forschen. Dies sind die Elektrotechnik, Steuerungstechnik,...
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The impact of energy prices on green innovation: Study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Ley, Marius; Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2013
Based on patent data and industry specific energy prices for 18 OECD countries over 30 years we investigate on an industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and green innovation activities are positively related and...
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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...
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Innovation in concentrating solar power technologies: A study drawing on patent data
Braun, Frauke G.; Hooper, Elizabeth; Wand, Robert; … - 2010
Better understanding the innovative process of renewable energy technologies is important for tackling climate change. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity in solar technologies in general, ignoring the major...
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