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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success : an empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. -- knowledge management ; innovation ; matching estimator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857910
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Acs, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
drive innovation. -- Entrepreneurship ; Development; Stages of Growth ; Globalization ; Innovation ; Index ; Knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824122
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Innovative start-up patenting : a new approach towards identification and determinants
Wolf, Tina - 2013
There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms ́propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784061
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Micro fluidity and macro stability in inventor networks
Fritsch, Michael; Kudic, Muhamed - 2019
From a macro perspective, inventor networks are characterized by rather stable structures. However, the high levels of fluidity of inventors and their ties found in reality contradicts this macro pattern. In order to explain these contradicting patterns, we zoom in on the intermediate group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035921
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Works councils, training activities and innovation : a study of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - 2014
establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm’s total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when … we consider only generalized training and innovation. Finally, no significant relation is found between training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255042
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Cultural imprinting : ancient origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Wahl, Fabian; Wyrwich, Michael - 2021
innovation culture today, evident by higher levels of quantity and quality entrepreneurship and innovation. The data indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012626158
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Do firms benefit from complementarity effect in R&D and what drives their R&D strategy choices?
Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - 2014
This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414249
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European transition at twenty: Assessing progress in countries and sectors
Berglöf, Erik; Bruynooghe, Lise; Harmgart, Heike; … - 2010
This study gauges the status of transition in the formerly centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, using a broad approach that compares countries with respect to their business environment, competition, and managerial practices; and assesses transition progress at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280114
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Natural resources, structural change, and industrial development: Local content in Zambia - a faltering experience?
Lombe, Wilfred C. - 2018
This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia's mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic diversification. It assesses productive linkages and manufacturing competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization and post-1991 liberalization and privatization, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943923
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Preferential attachment and pattern formation in R&D networks : plausible explanation or just a widespread myth?
Fritsch, Michael; Kudic, Muhamed - 2016
The emergence and solidification of network patterns is typically explained by the preferential attachment rule. The underlying logic is that a small number of actors which are characterized by an above average degree attract links at a higher rate than others. We raise the question as to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455982