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Churning of R&D personnel and innovation

Müller, Kathrin; Peters, Bettina - 2010

This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning … innovation through inter-firm knowledge spillovers and improved job-match quality up to certain threshold. The point when costs …

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Does Experience Matter? Innovations and the Productivity of ICT in German Services

Hempell, Thomas - 2002

In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...

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The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'

Thorwarth, Susanne; Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008

Many studies investigate the relationship between R&D expenditures as an input and patents as an intermediate product or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions has been underestimated in the literature, as scholars...

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Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries?

Peters, Bettina; Lööf, Hans; Janz, Norbert - 2003

Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been … found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing … number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …

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Innovation and Information Technology in Services

Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...

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Clean and Productive? Evidence from the German Manufacturing Industry

Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Moslener, Ulf; Böhringer, Christoph; … - 2008

We analyze the productivity effects of environmental (green) investment as well as of environmental expenditures and energy expenditures. For this purpose, we follow a production function approach where we account for these investment and expenditure categories as inputs. Based on a panel...

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Works Councils and the Productivity Impact of Direct Employee Participation

Zwick, Thomas - 2003

This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups...

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Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity, ICT and R&D Incentives

Cequera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - 2008

Firm heterogeneity explains the productivity driven selection mechanism that determines aggregate productivity growth within industries. This paper empirically demonstrates that ICT has a robust impact on firm heterogeneity only when ICT is used intensively and jointly with specific ICT...

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Absorptive capacity and post-acquisition inventor productivity

Hussinger, Katrin - 2010

counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper provides empirical evidence into the role of acquiring firms' absorptive …

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