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Does Professional Knowledge Management Improve Innovation Performance at the Firm Level?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - 2014

how knowledge management influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge … techniques on product and process innovation. More specifically, if a firm wants to reduce costs, it is more valuable to invest … important for a firm to carefully select the techniques of knowledge management depending on the goals in its innovation …

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The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius; Thorwarth, Suzanne - 2013

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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On the Profitability of Innovative Assets

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2007

Successful innovative activity is a major contribution to the intangible capital of firms. Although its importance is generally acknowledged, the contribution to companies' profits is a priori unclear. We present the results of an empirical study on the effects of the patent stock on...

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Sources of Spillovers for Imitation and Innovation

Cappelli, Riccardo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2014

market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation …

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R&D, Innovation and the Impact on Productivity in Flanders

Czarnitzki, Dirk; O'Byrnes, Niall - 2007

Innovation Survey 2005. In particular, we investigate growth differences between R&D-performing firms and non-R&D performers. As … process innovation are introduced in the model, the contribution of R&D drops to about 4%-points. Interestingly, we find that …

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Firm Leadership and Innovative Performance : Evidence from Seven EU Countries

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2005

This paper considers the effect of different firm leadership on the innovative performance of firms from seven EU countries. We investigate whether owner-led or manager-led firms achieve a larger share of their turnover with product innovations. Economic theory does not propose clear answers to...

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Management Control and Innovative Activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015

This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative activities. There are opposing effects concerning R&D intensity in the manager-controlled firm. Our study on the determinants of R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning...

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Financing Constraints for Industrial Innovation : What do We Know?

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2013

evidence for incentive and financing problems for private sector investment in innovation projects has provided ground for … governmental interventions to prevent welfare reducing underinvestment in innovation. However, the survey of the literature shows …

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Industrial Research versus Development Investment : The Implications of Financial Constraints

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2013

Previous literature provided evidence on financing constraints for investment in R&D activities due to capital market imperfections and special features of R&D investments.Moreover, it has been shown that a shift in capital structure towards more debt, results in a reduction of R&D investments....

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Industrial Research Versus Development Investment : The Implications of Financial Constraints

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2013

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