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Patents as quality signals? : the implications for financing constraints on R&D

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014

Information about the success of a new technology is usually held asymmetrically between the research and development (R&D)-performing firm and potential lenders and investors. This raises the cost of capital for financing R&D externally, resulting in financing constraints on R&D especially for...

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Canada's Investments in Science and Innovation : Is the Existing Concept of Research and Development Sufficient?

Baldwin, John R.; Beckstead, Desmond; Gellatly, Guy - 2012

required for the Accounts should incorporate a broad range of science-based innovation costs and that this broader R&D concept … science-based innovation expenditures are to be capitalized, GDP will increase. But it appears that Canada's innovation system … is directed more towards non-R&D science-based expenditures than the innovation systems of many other countries. If …

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The Role of Research Orientation for Attracting Competitive Research Funding

Hottenrott, Hanna - 2011

This article studies the role of research orientation for attracting research grants at higher education institutions in Germany. Traditionally research activities were funded by the institutions' core budget. More recently, extramural research funding has become increasingly important. Besides...

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Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation: More money, more innovation?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - 2012

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of …. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …

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Innovation : The Key to Success in Small Firms

Baldwin, John R. - 2014

This study examines the differences in strategies and activities pursued by a sample of more-successful and less-successful group of growing small-and medium-sized enterprises. Amongst other matters, it examines different functional strategies--the importance of management, human resource...

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Business Strategies in Innovative and Non-Innovative Firms in Canada

Baldwin, John R.; Johnson, Joanne - 2000

This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on a broad group of strategies in marketing, finance, production, management and human resources and asks whether there are key areas in which the strategies being followed by...

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Technology Use and Industrial Transformation : Empirical Perspectives

Baldwin, John R.; Diverty, Brent; Sabourin, David - 1998

This study examines technology use in Canada's manufacturing sector and how a set of technology-using manufacturing establishments performed relative to non-users. Data originates from a recent Statistics Canada survey, asking manufacturing firms about their use of 22 advanced manufacturing...

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Innovation Capabilities : Technology Use, Productivity Growth and Business Performance: Evidence from Canadian Technology Surveys

Baldwin, John R. - 2015

This paper summarizes the results of several research studies conducted by the Micro-economic Analysis Division of Statistics Canada that investigate the impact of advanced technology use on business performance. These studies combine establishment-level survey data on advanced technology...

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Innovation Capabilities : The Knowledge Capital Behind the Survival and Growth of Firms

Baldwin, John R. - 2013

This paper summarizes the findings of a research program aimed at outlining the importance to the firm growth process of competencies that arise from investments in intangible assets. The program has consisted of two parts. First, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on...

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Advanced Technology Use in Canadian Manufacturing Establishments

Baldwin, John R. - 1998

This paper investigates the characteristics of Canadian manufacturing plants that are related to the use of advanced technologies. The data used are taken from the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology and are linked to administrative data taken from the Census of Manufacturers. Technology use...

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