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Technological diversification and innovation performance

Bolli, Thomas; Wörter, Martin - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of technological diversity on innovation inputs and success using Swiss firm-level panel … applications as suggested by the literature. However, since patent applications reflect an intermediate innovation input rather …

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Openness and innovation - home and export demand effects on manufacturing innovation: Panel data evidence for Ireland and Switzerland

Woerter, Martin; Roper, Stephen - 2008

Recent studies in the tradition of Schmookler have re-emphasised the potential role of demand in stimulating innovation …. Here, we reconsider the role of home and export market demand in stimulating manufacturing innovation using comparable … innovation production functions using panel data estimators over the sample period 1994 to 2005. For a range of innovation …

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Technological Diversification and Innovation Performance

Bolli, Thomas; Woerter, Martin - 2013

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The (anti-)competitive effect of intellectual property rights

Peneder, Michael; Thompson, Mark; Wörter, Martin - 2019

We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …

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Research and development as an initiator of fixed kapital investment

Spescha, Andrin; Wörter, Martin - 2016

, but we do not find evidence for the reverse effect. When additionally looking at innovation performance, R&D activities …

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Driving forces for research and development strategies: An empirical analysis based on firm-level panel data

Wörter, Martin - 2007

comprising three cross-sections (1999, 2002, and 2005) of the Swiss innovation survey, four different types of R&D strategies …

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Exploration or exploitation of knowledge from universities: Does it make a difference?

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Wörter, Martin - 2012

universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …-oriented firms. We further found a positive effect on innovation performance for exploration-oriented firms but not for those that …

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Intra-firm diffusion of green energy technologies and the choice of policy instruments

Stucki, Tobias; Wörter, Martin - 2016

Environmental benefits only unfold if green (environmentally friendly) technologies are widely diffused and intensively deployed within a firm. We investigate how different types of policies - directly and in combination - affect the number of different green energy technologies adopted by a...

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Innovation and firm growth over the business cycle

Spescha, Andrin; Woerter, Martin - 2016

This paper investigates how the macroeconomic business cycle impacts the empirical relation between firms' innovations and their sales growth rates. Based on firm-level panel data over the time period 1995-2014, the paper finds no visible sales growth differentials between firms in booming...

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Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies: Firm-level evidence for the DACH region

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Peneder, Michael; Rammer, Christian; … - 2016

For a large sample of enterprises in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the "DACH"region) we study the impact of various policy instruments, such as energy related taxes, subsidies, regulations and standards or negotiated agreements on the firm's ecological and economic performance. To identify...

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