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Formal and Strategic Appropriability Strategies of Multinational Firms: A Cross Country Comparison

Faria, Pedro; Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal …

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Knowledge Flows and R&D Co-operation: Firm-level Evidence from Germany

Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We …

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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs

Schmiele, Anja; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …

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The Importance of Equity Finance for R&D Activity: Are There Differences Between Young and OldCompanies?

Zimmermann, Volker; Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&D activity of small and medium-sized enterprises. We use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as instrument to control for endogeneity, we find...

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Did Concentration on Core Competencies Drive Merger and Acquisition Activities in the 1990s? Empirical Evidence for Germany

Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

In the context of increasing globalization of markets, merger and acquisition activities in the 1990s are said to be driven by reorganization processes with respect to concentration on firms? core competencies in order to increase or maintain market power in international markets. This paper...

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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity

Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private …

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Do direct R&D subsidies lead to the monopolization of R&D in the economy?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Ebersberger, Bernd - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...

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The contribution of corporate ventures to radical innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Dick, Johannes M. H.; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form … monitored by their corporate sponsors, resulting in less favorable conditions for radical innovation. …

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Delay and secrecy: Does industry sponsorship jeopardize disclosure of academic research?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Grimpe, Christoph; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

The viability of modern open science norms and practices depend on public disclosure of new knowledge, methods, and materials. Aggregate data from the OECD show a broad shift in the institutional financing structure that supports academic research from public to private sponsorship. This paper...

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The influence of international dispersed vs. home-based R&D on innovation performance

Peters, Bettina; Schmiele, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

Recent years have shown a surge of firms globalising their innovation activities in order to gain from international … stronger dispersed international R&D activities hamper or stimulate innovation. Second, we employ two well-established market …-based indicators for innovation (introduction of and sales growth rates due to new products) instead of looking at inventions (patents …

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