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The Impact of R&D Activities on Exports of German Business Services Enterprises: First evidence from a continuous treatment approach.

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalized propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the...

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Innovation and Exports of German Business Services Enterprises: First evidence from a new type of firm data

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities … convincing attempt to investigate the direction of the causal link between exports and innovation activities. …

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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...

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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,...

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Equity Financing and Innovation: is Europe different from the United States?

Martinsson, Gustav - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

During the mid and late 1990s young, high-tech firms in the U.S. experienced a supply shift in both internal and external equity fueling a finance driven boom in corporate R&D. I estimate dynamic R&D regression models for high-tech firms, separately for the U.K. and Continental Europe, and find...

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Innovation Strategy and Firm Performance What is the long-run impact of persistent R&D?

Börje, Johansson; Hans, Lööf - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

There are systematic long-run differences in the performance of firms explained by the R&D-strategy that each firm employs. Controlling for unobservable heterogeneity, past performance and other firm characteristics, this paper shows that labour productivity is, on average, 13 percent higher...

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Multinational Firms and Innovation: The Role of R&D Collaboration, Markets and Ownership

Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

innovation. In doing so, we classify a Swedish sample of 1,249 multinational enterprises, MNEs, on the basis of their main market … model and estimate the contribution to innovation output from regional and foreign collaboration on innovation with other … cross-sectional data sheds new light on how innovation is affected by local and global technology spillover. …

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