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Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation: Evidence from firm-level data

Rammer, Christian; Fernández, Gastón P.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2021

survey allows extrapolating the findings to the macroeconomic level. The results show that 5.8% of firms in Germany were …

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Publicly Funded R&D Collaborations and Patent Outcome in Germany

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - 2003

examines the development and the impact of publicly funded R&D consortia in Germany. The paper describes the history of R …&D funding in Germany with a focus on the development of measures encouraging collaborative R&D activities among firms and public …

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Are Credit Ratings Valuable Information?

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2004

Credit ratings are commonly used by lenders to assess the default risk, because every credit is connected with a possible loss. If the probability of a default is above a certain threshold, a credit will not be provided. The purpose of this paper is to test whether credit ratings contribute...

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The Relationship between R&D Collaboration, Subsidies and Patenting Activity: Empirical Evidence from Finland and Germany

Ebersberger, Bernd; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - 2004

This study focuses on the impact of innovation policies and R&D collaboration in Germany and Finland. We consider … level. In general, we find that collaboration has positive effects. In Germany, subsidies for individual research do not …

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On the Profitability of Innovative Assets

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2004

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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The Link Between R&D Subsidies, R&D Spending and Technological Performance

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin - 2004

This paper analyzes the effects of public R&D funding on R&D expenditure and patenting behavior of German firms. The main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent applications. We distinguish the productivity of purely...

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Capital Control, Debt Financing and Innovative Activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2004

The present paper first discusses theoretically the different incentives of manager- versus owner-controlled firms for investment into innovative activity. In addition, the role of debt financing is analyzed. Subsequently the results from an empirical study on the determinants of innovative...

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License Expenditures of Incumbents and Potential Entrants: An Empirical Analysis of Firm Behavior

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2005

This paper presents the results of an empirical test concerning the auction model of Gilbert and Newbery (1982). The study uses data on German companies in order to analyze expenditures for technology licenses. Aside of standard control variables the motives for innovation expenditures are also...

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R&D and Firm Performance in a Transition Economy

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006

of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on … firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a negative impact in Eastern Germany. We also consider future … financial distress, and find that R&D in Eastern German firms leads to higher default risk, in contrast to Western Germany …

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Uncertainty of outcome versus reputation: empirical evidence for the First German Football Division

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Stadtmann, Georg - 1999

This paper analyses the determination of match attendance in the German premier football league by applying models derived from Peel/Thomas (1992) and Janssens/Késenne (1987). Additionally we develop an improved version, where we incorporate the supporter clubs and the weather conditions as...

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