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Innovation clusters : combining physical and virtual links

Preißl, Brigitte - 2003

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …

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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed

Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...

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Why IT matters : an empirical study of e-business usage, innovation, and firm performance

Koellinger, Philipp (contributor) - 2005

The article argues that IT continues to have strategic relevance for companies because it enables innovation. A … conceptual link between the adoption of IT and innovation is established. This conceptual link allows a market-based, economic … explanation for variations in IT payoffs among firms: The successful adoption of new IT leads to innovation. Depending on the …

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Ubiquitous social networks : opportunities and challenges for privacy-aware user modelling

Preibusch, Sören; Hoser, Bettina; Gürses, Seda; … - 2007

Privacy has been recognized as an important topic in the Internet for a long time, and technological developments in the area of privacy tools are ongoing. However, their focus was mainly on the individual. With the proliferation of social network sites, it has become more evident that the...

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Facebook shadow profiles

Aguiar, Luis; Peukert, Christian; Schäfer, Maximilian; … - 2022

Data is often at the core of digital products and services, especially when related to online advertising. This has made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be used to build user profiles and infer preferences. We...

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The German retirement benefit formula : drawbacks and alternatives

Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2003 - Preliminary version

In this paper we identify a number of objectionable features of the German retirement benefit formula. We show that groups of insureds with higher than average life expectancy, in particular high-income groups, are subsidized by the rest of the membership because the formula neglects differences...

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Increasing block tariffs in the water sector : an interpretation in terms of social preferences

Meran, Georg; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2014

Many developing countries around the world apply progressive water tariffs, often structured in the form of discretely increasing block tariffs (IBTs). These tariffs have been criticized in the welfare economic literature due to their perceived inefficiency: many of the prices charged under IBTs...

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Goods follow bytes : the impact of ICT on EU trade

Mattes, Anselm; Meinen, Philipp; Pavel, Ferdinand - 2012

This paper empirically assesses whether the deployment and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure at the national level affects trade flows within the European Union (EU) and between the EU and its main trading partners. The analysis tests the hypothesis that...

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Nested stochastic possibility frontiers with heterogeneous capital inputs

Erber, Georg (contributor); Madlener, Reinhard (contributor) - 2007

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Diversify or not? : the link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance

Schiersch, Alexander; Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2023

Our paper contributes to the discussion about Europe’s digital sovereignty. We analyze the relationship between firm performance and the diversification of sourcing countries for imported ICT goods. The analysis is based on administrative data for 3888 German manufacturing firms that imported...

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