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Innovation strategies of German firms: The effect of competition and intellectual property protection

Slivko, Olga - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced. …

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Invalid but infringed? An analysis of Germany's bifurcated patent litigation system

Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany's bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...

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Regional age structure, human capital and innovation: Is demographic ageing increasing regional disparities?

Gregory, Terry; Patuelli, Roberto - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by conducting an Exploratory Space-Time Data Analysis (ESTDA). Beside … variables. Overall, we find strong clustering tendencies for the demographic variables and innovation that constitute a great … among regions that may further reinforce the observed innovation divide in the future. …

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Policy-induced environmental technology and incentive efforts: Is there a crowding out?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …

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How do banks screen innovative firms? Evidence from start-up panel data

Brown, Martin; Degryse, Hans; Höwer, Daniel; Penas, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Start-up firms often face difficulties in raising external funds. Employing a unique panel dataset covering 9,715 start-up firms over the period 2007-2009, we find that high-tech startups are less likely to use bank finance and face more difficulties in raising bank finance than low-tech...

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Invention in energy technologies: Comparing energy efficiency and renewable energy inventions at the firm level

Rexhäuser, Sascha; Löschel, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Many countries, especially in Europe, have ambitious goals to transform their national energy systems towards renewable energies. Technological change in both renewable production and efficient use of energy can help to make these targets come true. Using a panel of German firms linked to the...

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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier: Firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation … performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …

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Buyer power and suppliers' incentives to innovate

Köhler, Christian; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical … evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking …

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Dominica - Country Procurement Assessment Report : Volume 2. Data and Analysis

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2003

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Innovationsindikatoren Chemie 2016: Studie im Auftrag des Verbands der Chemischen Industrie e.V.

2016

[Innovation in Chemistry & the Chemical Industry in Germany] The chemical industry is one of the key sectors in the … German innovation system. Being devoted to research and innovation, the chemical industry is leading the development and … industries build their innovative efforts. The innovation performance of the chemical industry in Germany can be demonstrated by …

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