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Due to markup distortions, in international trade models with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms the market equilibrium is inefficient unless demand exhibits constant elasticity of substitution. When it does not, global welfare maximization generally requires policy intervention...
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Das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie beauftragte das ifo Institut, den Zusammenhang zwischen sich rasch verändernden Rahmenbedingungen und dem Wandel von Unternehmensstrukturen und -strategien in der Industrie zu untersuchen. Als zentrale Bereiche, die einen wesentlichen...
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Einer aktuellen Studie der Weltbank zufolge dauert die Gründung einer GmbH in Deutschland 45 Tage und damit elfmal so lange wie beim europäischen Spitzenreiter Dänemark. In diesem Beitrag werden die Methode und ausgewählte Ergebnisse der Studie vorgestellt. Anschließend wird der Frage...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and firms' innovational performance for process as well as product innovations. Using German firm-level data...
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also show a positive impact on process innovation intensity. These results do not only emerge for the short-run of two …
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The research project „KompNet 2011 – Sucess factors of regional innovation networks“, funded by the Federal Ministry of … Education and Research (BMBF), examines the innovation activities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in and closely … strategic alignment. The innovation activities focus clearly on product innovation instead of process innovation. Furthermore …
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In this paper, we analyze the relationships between different types of innovation and collaboration, given the varying … success of regional innovation networks', which examines the innovation activities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME … linkages determines innovation orientation and innovative behavior. That means: Innovation performance could be positively …
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In this paper, the author shows how the introduction of a bargaining game structure into a standard R&D endogenous growth model can be a potential source of local indeterminacy. He also shows that on a high-growth path, the government, by directly engaging in R&D activities and using R&D...
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This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...
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Eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für die Nutzung externen technologischen Wissens in Unternehmen ist deren Absorptionskapazität. Die Analyse zeigt, dass diese Kapazität entscheidend von der Innovationskompetenz des Unternehmens und seiner Mitarbeiter abhängt. Dabei spielt neben der...
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