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Deriving technology indicators from corporate websites : a comparative assessment using patents

Heinrich, Sebastian - 2023

This paper investigates the potential of indicators derived from corporate websites to measure technology related concepts. Using artificial intelligence (AI) technology as a case in point, I construct a 24-year panel combining the texts of websites and patent portfolios for over 1,000 large...

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Global technology cycles and local economic performance

Heinrich, Sebastian; Sarferaz, Samad; Wörter, Martin - 2023

This paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-specific factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and...

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Competition and R&D cooperation with universities and competitors

Bolliger, Thomas; Wörter, Martin - 2011

cooperation. We mainly hypothesize that university cooperation corresponds to product innovation and hence quality competition … receptive for horizontal cooperation. In sum these findings advance our understanding of the relationship between innovation and … competition policy. -- innovation cooperation ; university cooperation ; horizontal cooperation ; number of competitors ; price …

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Firm characteristics and the cyclicality of R&D investments

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Wörter, Martin - 2011

investigation of a series of hypotheses as to innovation-relevant firm characteristics that underline the three different behaviour …

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Inter and intra firm diffusion of ICT in the United Kingdom (UK) and Switzerland (CH) : an internationally comparative study based on firm-level data

Battisti, Giuliana; Hollenstein, Heinz; Stoneman, Paul; … - 2005

This paper attempts to at least partially redress a paucity of current literature on the joint analysis of inter and intra firm diffusion of innovations within as well as across countries. In particular, by using two datasets derived from independent countryspecific surveys, it undertakes an...

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Inter- and intra-firm diffusion of technology: the example of e-commerce : an analysis based on Swiss firm-level data

Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor); … - 2007

The paper aims at a joint analysis of inter-firm and intra-firm diffusion of technology, taking as an example E-selling and E-purchasing. The analysis is based on an encompassing model of diffusion, drawn from the literature, which is extended by considering technology-specific obstacles and...

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Strategies pursued by Swiss firms in investing in R&D at foreign locations an empirical analysis based on firm-level data

Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor) - 2006

The aim of this paper is twofold: Firstly, we try to identify and characterise different types of strategies firms pursue in performing foreign R&D. Secondly, it is analysed whether the types of R&D strategies we identified in the first part differ in terms of their impact on firm productivity....

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The impact of ICT usage, workplace organisation and human capital on the provision of apprenticeship training. a firm-level analysis based on Swiss panel data

Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor); Stucki, Tobias (contributor) - 2008

Firstly, we investigated the determinants of a) the propensity of Swiss firms to provide apprenticeship training, and b) the intensity of training (measured by the employment share of apprentices). We primarily were interested in the relevance as explanatory factors of the three constituent...

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R&D and non-linear productivity growth of heterogeneous firms

Kancs, D'Artis; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2012

The present paper studies the relationship between R&D investment and firm productivity growth by explicitly accounting for non-linearities in the R&D-productivity relationship and inter-sectoral firm heterogeneity. In order to address these issues, we employ a two step estimation approach, and...

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Impact of external knowledge acquisition strategies on innovation : a comparative study based on Dutch and Swiss panel data

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre A.; … - 2013

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, "buy" and "cooperate", on firm's product innovation performance … while both "buy" and "cooperate" have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …

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