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In the wake of the global crisis the issue of innovation development is mentioned more of-ten than in previous years …, despite the fact that "innovation" context has greatly contrasted with the actual results of the formation of the national … innovation economy. The principal difference last year was that, first, the innovation vector of development (at least at the …
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The scientific sphere saw continuation of the measures initiated between 2009 and 2010. The Russian research complex displayed certain positive shifts, though they fell short of being of magnitude sufficient to be mirrored by statistics. There also were alarm bells: specifically, against the...
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In 2012 the subject of innovation development formed one of the top public policy priorities. That manifested itself in …, and encouragement of the latter’s innovation activities. The focus shifted onto huge projects, with Skolkovo being atop …
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Firms invest huge amounts into intangible assets. This paper explores to which extent different kinds of intangible assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital,...
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This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...
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The internationalisation of corporate R&D opens up the chances to participate in international knowledge sharing. This … organizational costs as well as risks of outgoing knowledge spillovers. In this paper we empirically address the question whether … Innovation Survey (CIS). The empirical results demonstrate that R&D location matters for profitability. Firms with both domestic …
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This paper empirically studies the impact of the adoption of open source software (OSS) on firms' labor productivity and innovative behavior. Using a representative sample of German firms, the results show that the adoption of OSS operating systems for servers and general OSS applications has no...
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analysis rests on the German data from the Europe-wide Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We use a unique data set of about 900 … domestic innovation activities the later wave reports IP infringements. In a second analysis, the likelihood of infringements … from innovation host countries and no innovation host countries abroad is examined. Before the empirical analysis, an …
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the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge spillovers inherent in the introduction of ICT. The results show …
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We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …
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