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The Impact of Innovation on Employment in Small and Medium Enterprises with Different Growth Rates

Zimmermann, Volker - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a … quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and … shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee headcounts is much stronger in companies that are already experiencing …

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Die Rolle der Innovationsförderung im Aufholprozess Ostdeutschlands

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Licht, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

Der Beitrag untersucht die Effektivität der Innovationsförderung in den neuen Ländern. Dabei wird ein doppelter Vergleich angestellt. Zum einen analysieren wir die Auswirkungen der Förderung hinsichtlich der FuE-Anreize und der FuE-Ergebnisse durch einen Vergleich von geförderten und...

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Dynamic R&D incentives with network externalities

Cerquera Dussán, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper studies the incentives to undertake uncertain R&D initiatives in a dynamic duopoly network industry. It is shown that network externalities positively affect the incentives to invest in R&D. In the model, competition resembles a preemption race and, therefore, market performance...

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Business services in Germany: bridges for innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially …" of technological information within the economy. They are providers, purchasers or partners in the context of innovation …. A sound innovation capacity, especially knowledge, creativity, market and management skills let them become bridges for …

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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …

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Active owners and the failure of newly adopted works councils

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Using representative data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show that employees in establishments with active owners are less likely to introduce a works council. Moreover, we show that, in case of an introduction, the new works council is less likely to survive if active owners are present....

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Arbeitszufriedenheit und Fluktuation im Post Merger Integrationsprozess

Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Zahlreiche Studien weisen auf hohe Misserfolgsquoten von Unternehmenszusammenschlüssen hin, messen dies jedoch vor allem anhand finanzieller Indikatoren, während eine mitarbeiterbezogene Betrachtung unterbleibt. Kritisch wird die Situation, wenn hochqualifizierte, aber unzufriedene...

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Does Work Time Flexibility Work? An Empirical Assessment of the Efficiency Effects for German Firms

Wolf, Elke; Beblo, Miriam - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

and the determinants of technical efficiency simultaneously. The innovation of our study is that we draw on technical …

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Cartel detection in procurement markets

Hüschelrath, Kai; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Cartel detection is usually viewed as a key task of either competition authorities or compliance officials in firms with an elevated risk of cartelization. We argue that customers of hard core cartels can have both incentives and possibilities to detect such agreements on their own initiative...

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Carbon management: Evidence from case studies of German firms under the EU ETS

Heindl, Peter; Lutz, Benjamin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper examines the management practices of German firms with obligations under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) based on six structured in-depth interviews with managers of firms from different industries and based on survey data. The paper sheds light on management and trading...

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