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Foreign Direct Investment, Competition and Industrial Development in the Host Country: An Analysis for the Case of "White" Certificates
Barrios, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of local firms. We focus on two likely effects of FDI: a competition effect which deters entry of domestic firms and positive market externalities which foster the development of local industry. Using a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068780
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Innovation Clusters: Combining Physical and Virtual Links
Preissl, Brigitte - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068838
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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMES: Creation of Knowledge but no Creation of Value
Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and process innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net- works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. knowledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090493
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Determinants influencing the choice of a cooperation partner
Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper provides empirical tests of hypotheses of cooperative behavior provided by evolutionary approaches in the resource-based view of the firm. The influences of "technological proximity", individual incentives to cooperate and managerial tools to the choice of research partner are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105646
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt
Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090542
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Who Starts with Open Source? Institutional Choice of Start-Ups in the German ICT Sector
Fritsch, Michael; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyze the characteristics of new businesses in the German ICT industry, distinguishing them based on their choice between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS-based business model has increased considerably over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511326
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On the Geographic Allocation of Open Source Software Activities
Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Schulz, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. OSS is developed by a 'community' consisting of thousands of contributors from all over the world. Some research was undertaken in order to analyze how global the OSS community actually is, i.e. analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489508
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Institutions, Culture, and Open Source
Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489509
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Quality Competition or Quality Cooperation? License-Type and the Strategic Nature of Open Source vs. Closed Source Business Models
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493739
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Open Source Software, Closed Source Software or Both: Impacts on Industry Growth and the Role of Intellectual Property Rights
Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Swaminathan, Sushmita - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068712