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This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped and unique Eurostat International Sourcing Survey. The results are easy to summarize. First, the magnitude of R&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is...
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Die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer Volkswirtschaft hängt nicht zuletzt auch von der Innovationskraft ihrer wirtschaftlichen Akteure ab. Voraussetzung dafür sind Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in Unternehmen, Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen und die Nutzung der regionalen...
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Die Analyse der Patentanmeldungen deutscher Unternehmen am Europäischen Patentamt zeigt: Die Unternehmen lenken ihre Forschungsaktivitäten im Ausland vor allem in die Hochtechnologiebereiche, in denen sie seit langem besonders intensiv forschen. Dies sind die Elektrotechnik, Steuerungstechnik,...
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literature on international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), economic geography, and innovation, and compares these with … development, and on the innovation capability of countries. …
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The fact that Europe is lagging behind in comparison with its main competitors in the research and innovation … finally the follow-up communication of the Commission presenting a broad-based innovation strategy for the EU. …
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In Deutschland informieren zwei Statistiken über die Entwicklung und die Struktur von staatlichen Fördermitteln für Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in der Wirtschaft: die FuE-Statistik des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft sowie die Statistik des Bundesministeriums für Bildung...
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Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...
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This paper empirically investigates the potential determinants of business-sector R&D intensity using a panel of OECD countries for the period of 1970-2002 with data measured as five-year year averages. Estimates using a system GMM estimator controlling for endogeneity show a high degree of...
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Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …
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The literature on environmental R&D frequently studies innovation as a two-stage process, with a single R&D event … leading from a conventional polluting technology to a perfectly clean backstop. We allow for uncertainty in innovation in that …
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