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Motives for innovation co-coperation : evidence from the Canadian survey of innovation

Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sector to co-operate on innovation … innovation activities, which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from the Canadian Survey of Innovation …

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Absorptive capacity - one size fits all? : A firm-level analysis of absorptive capacity for different kinds of knowledge

Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2005

from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003181057

Empirical evidence on the success of R&D co-operation : happy together?

Aschhoff, Birgit (contributor); Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2006

In this paper we analyse the effect of R&D co-operation on firms’ innovation performance. We investigate the effect of …-operation partners. The analysis rests on firm-level data from two consecutive waves of the annual German innovation survey. We find that …

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Two for the price of one? : On additionality effects of R&D subsidies ; a comparison between Flanders and Germany

Aerts, Kris (contributor); Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2006

, using firm level data from the Flemish and German part of the Community Innovation survey (CIS III and IV). Both the non …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003370000

Does Wikipedia matter? : the effect of Wikipedia on tourist choices

Hinnosaar, Marit; Hinnosaar, Toomas; Kummer, Michael E.; … - 2015

We analyze the impact of information on Wikipedia on tourists' choices for travel destinations. Our results suggest a strong observational correlation between the amount of content on Wikipedia and tourist overnight stays. We propose a check of whether this correlation is causal. For that, we...

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Economic downturn and volunteering : do economic crises affect content generation on Wikipedia?

Kummer, Michael E.; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Michael - 2015

In this paper, we address the impact of surging unemployment on online public good provision. Specifically, we ask how drastically increased unemployment affects voluntary contributions of content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. We put together a monthly country-level data set, which...

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Spillovers in networks of user generated content : evidence from 23 natural experiments on Wikipedia

Kummer, Michael E. - 2013

Endogeneity in network formation hinders the identification of the role social networks play in generating spillovers, peer effects and other externalities. This paper tackles this problem and investigates how the link network between articles on the German Wikipedia influences the attention and...

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Spillovers in networks of user generated content : pseudo-experimental evidence on Wikipedia

Kummer, Michael E. - 2014

I quantify spillovers of attention in a network of content pages, which is challenging, because such networks form endogenously. I exploit exogenous variation in the article network of German Wikipedia to circumvent this problem. Wikipedia prominently advertises one featured article on its main...

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Economic downturn and volunteering : do economic crises affect content generation on Wikipedia?

Kummer, Michael E.; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Michael - 2016 - This Version: February 2016

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Unemployment and online labor

Borchert, Kathrin; Hirth, Matthias; Kummer, Michael E.; … - 2018

Online labor markets experienced a rapid growth in recent years. They allow for long-distance transactions and offer workers access to a potentially 'global' pool of labor demand. As such, they bear the potential to act as a substitute for shrinking local income opportunities. Using detailed...

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