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Fishing for Complementarities : Competitive Research Funding and Research Productivity

Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014

This paper empirically investigates complementarities between different sources of research funding with regard to academic publishing. We find for a sample of UK engineering academics that competitive funding is associated with an increase in ex-post publications but that industry funding...

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Access to Research Inputs : Open Science Versus the Entrepreneurial University

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Grimpe, Christoph; Pellens, Maikel - 2014

The viability of modern open science norms and practices depend on public disclosure of new knowledge, methods, and materials. However, increasing industry funding of research can restrict the dissemination of results and materials. We show, through a survey sample of 837 German scientists in...

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Externalities in Knowledge Production : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Hinnosaar, Marit - 2019

Do contributions to online content platforms induce a feedback loop of ever more user-generated content or will they discourage future contributions? To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment which added content to some pages in Wikipedia while leaving similar pages unchanged. We find...

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Externalities in Knowledge Production : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Hinnosaar, Marit - 2020

Are there positive or negative externalities in knowledge production? We analyze whether current contributions to knowledge production increase or decrease the future growth of knowledge. To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment that added content to some pages in Wikipedia while...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850017

Innovation, Competition and Incentives for R&D

Woerter, Martin - 2013

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …

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Managerial Ownership, Entrenchment and Innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014

as reduced remuneration and job loss. However, managers might over-invest into innovation for reasons of growth implying … their own interests. When entrenched, managers do not fear detrimental effects of risky innovation projects on their career …, and hence tend to over-invest into innovation …

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The Influence of International Dispersed vs. Home-Based R&D on Innovation Performance

Peters, Bettina - 2014

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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Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength

Peters, Bettina - 2016

This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from...

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Spillovers of Innovation Activities and Their Profitability

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2015

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company …

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The Importance of Equity Finance for R&D Activity - are There Differences between Young and Old Companies?

Müller, Elisabeth - 2014

This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the Ramp;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...

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