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Neu an dieser Studie ist, dass zum ersten Mal umfassend die Transferaktivitäten von zwei unterschiedlichen Hochschultypen - in diesem Fall der Friedrich Schiller Universität (FSU) und der Fachhochschule Jena (FH Jena) - parallel und über alle Fächer hinweg hinsichtlich ihrer regionalen...
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This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We … develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving in-novation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous … innovation sizes. Government de-mand in high-tech industries increases the market size in these industries and, with it, the in …
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This paper is an attempt to understand the effects of leaders on organizational performance. We argue for an "expert leader" model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and industry experience. After controlling for...
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This paper analyses a large database on inter-firm R&D cooperation formed in the pharmaceutical biotechnology industry during the period 1985 - 1998. The results indicate that network size largely grows, whereas the density of the network declines during the periods. In the network analysis that...
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The not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome refers to internal resistance in a company against externally developed knowledge. In this paper, we argue that the occurrence of the NIH syndrome depends on the source of external knowledge and the success of the firm that aims at adapting external...
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results for East Germany. Given the fact that the East German innovation system is particularly driven by small and medium …
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Since the mid 1990s labor productivity growth in Sweden has been high compared to Japan, the US and the western EU-countries. While productivity growth has been rapid in manufacturing, it has been much slower in the service sector. Paradoxically, all employment growth since the mid 1990s has...
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We study a continuous-time game of strategic experimentation in which the players try to assess the failure rate of some new equipment or technology. Breakdowns occur at the jump times of a Poisson process whose unknown intensity is either high or low. In marked contrast to existing models, we...
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A key issue of dfferent streams of economic literature is to determine the impact of certain dimensions of proximity on the cooperative behavior of actors and, thus, on interactive learning processes. This paper is a quantitative study on the impact of technological and geographical proximity on...
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Cluster studies have shown that innovation can be understood as the result of an inter- organizational process, where a …
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