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Globalization has set new paradigms, especially in the business world. Breakthroughs in technology (telecommunications, logistics, the internet) and ideology (most notably economic and political trends in China and India) are creating exciting opportunities as well as crucial challenges. This...
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Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking into account the type of competition in the...
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country knowledge. We use a broad sample of roughly 1,000 firms in Germany to empirically test the existence of liabilities of …
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This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative; (2) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas...
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, 1994 and 1995. In the German industrial sector, especially in East Germany, employment has declined and the share of highly … current stage of transition subsidising labour might be more effective for creating jobs in East Germany than promoting R …
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relations between innovating firms, suppliers and users, using data from Germany. The analysis is based on a survey conducted by … the "Center for European Economic Research" (Mannheim, Germany) among 3122 firms representing 378 different lines of …
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Die vorliegenden Überlegungen sind darauf gerichtet, die Ideen und wesentlichen Gedanken Nationaler Innovationssysteme aufzugreifen und in den Kontext einer wissensbasierten Ökonomie zu stellen. Neben den Akteuren oder Spielern geht es um die Regeln und Funktionsmechanismen und schließlich...
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In diesem Beitrag wird ein Oligopolmodell der Innovationsaktivität entwickelt und mit Daten aus dem Mannheimer Innovationspanel geschätzt. Das Modell erlaubt es, bei der empirischen Umsetzung auf die Verwendung von Marktanteilsdaten und Nachfrageelastizitäten zu verzichten, die typischerweise...
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concerning NTBFs in Germany. The issues covered include the incidence of start-ups firms in Germany's technology …, adoption and diffusion of technology. The public support and policy initiatives for new technology-based firms in Germany are …
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