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R&D Behavior of German Manufacturing Companies during the 2008/09 Recession
Eickelpasch, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 gave it up in the following year. Some companies...
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Why IT Matters: An Empirical Study of E-Business Usage, Innovation, and Firm Performance
Köllinger, Philipp - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
The article argues that IT continues to have strategic relevance for companies because it en-ables innovation. A … conceptual link between the adoption of IT and innovation is established. This conceptual link allows a market-based, economic … explanation for variations in IT payoffs among firms: The successful adoption of new IT leads to innovation. Depending on the be …
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