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This paper analyses the impact of corporate taxation on a firm's debt policy. We contribute to the existing literature in two ways: 1. we incorporate firm heterogeneity with respect to firm size and legal form, 2. we explicitly model persistence in the debt-to-asset ratio. Econometrically this...
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The study deals with the question whether external (foreign and West German) investors in East Germany induce technological spillover effects in favor of domestic firms. It ties in with a number of other econometric spillover studies, especially for transition economies, which show rather mixed...
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Growth in advanced economies is essentially driven by innovation activities. From a demographic point of view the … question rises, whether the trend of an ageing workforce will affect the innovation capacities of these economies. To answer … model, relating a firm's innovation potential to the age composition of its employees. The analysis provides evidence of …
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source of innovative activities within companies. Broken down by sectoral innovation patterns, this article examines the role … of formal education and actual occupation for product innovation performance in manufacturing firms within a probit model … to the Pavitt classification. Sectors with a high share of highly skilled employees engage in product innovation above …
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Innovation is the result of an interactive process. Knowledge-intensive interactions among different partners are … investigating the impact of R&D collaboration networks on the innovation performance of firms and regions has developed over the …
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and Corporate Innovation Processes' an der Technischen Universität Dresden dar. Diese besteht aus sechs bereits … Möglichkeit, auf diese neuen Ansprüche zu reagieren, ist Anpassung durch Innovation. Das übergeordnete Ziel der Dissertation ist … Innovation Processes' at the Technical University of Dresden. It consists of six already published papers and articles. Because …
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firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the effects of R&D collaborations on a firm's environmental innovation … a firm's environmental innovation performance. In addition, this paper addresses the question of whether the diversity …
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enterprises' operational environment. This article contributes to environmental innovation literature by providing a comprehensive … this context, the prime issue is how the perception of climate change affects corporate innovation processes. Firstly, the …
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In this article, we describe the results of a multiple case study on the indirect corporate innovation impact of … driver for incremental energy efficiency innovations in the enterprises' production processes. For product innovation …
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to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per …, exports, or population density. Innovation and foreign ownership appear to be the strongest drivers of multifactor …
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