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How to Persistently Finance Innovation: A Panel-Data Study on Exporting Firms in Sweden
Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014
This paper provides estimates of negative binomial regressions for high-leveraged and non-high-leveraged exporting firms in Sweden over a business cycle that contains two boom periods and two recession periods. The contemporaneous cash flow coefficients are positive and statistically...
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Internal Finance and Patents - evidence from firm-level data
Martinsson, Gustav; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
We find that internal finance resources at the firm-level, measured by cash flow, play a non-trivial role for the number of patent applications, even after controlling for the standard variables of a patent study. The results are based on estimating panel count-data models on a sample of 2,700...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546345
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Impact of Economic Crises on Innovation Activity: Firm Level Evidence from Patent Data
Martinsson, Gustav; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
Based on data from of 2,700 Swedish manufacturing firms, observed through the period 1997-2005, this paper shows that internal finance resources, measured by cash-flow, affect the propensity to apply for a patent as well as the number of patent applications. From a business cycle perspective,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506820
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Does Ownership Matter? The Impact of Foreign Takeovers on Innovation and Productivity Performance
Ebersberger, Bernd; Johansson, Börje; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006
outperformed by domestic multinationals in R&D and innovation engagement. Finally, the results on labor productivity are at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644951
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The Innovation and Productivity Effect of Foreign Take-Over of National Assets
Johansson, Börje; Lööf, Hans; Ebersberger, Bernd - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
generally outperformed by domestic multinationals in R&D and innovation engagement. Third, despite the fact that domestic … multinationals are considerably more involved in national innovation systems than other firms, they are not producing more innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644954
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Innovation Behaviour and Productivity Performance in the Nordic Region Does Foreign Ownership Matter?
Ebersberger, Bernd; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
-owned companies in R&D-activities; the relative embeddedness in various national innovation systems and the relative output … performance from R&D and innovation. A comparison is made between the innovation and productivity of foreign owned enterprises, of … Sweden, and based on the international harmonized Community Innovation Survey and uniform econometric approaches; the study …
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