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We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents' ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...
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in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East …
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During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially …" of technological information within the economy. They are providers, purchasers or partners in the context of innovation …. A sound innovation capacity, especially knowledge, creativity, market and management skills let them become bridges for …
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In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm-level panel data covering the period 1994-99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...
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Organisation capital is one of the key intangible assets of firms, driving innovation and firm performance. Measuring … considered as a measure of a firm' organisation capital. Using panel data from the German innovation survey, we find higher … organisational innovation. …
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Innovationsverhalten von Unternehmen wird durch Regulierungsindikatoren abgebildet, die in einer schriftlichen Erhebung bei den deutschen …This paper examines the determinants, that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in … structures of the determinants of environmental innovation, as well as the specific impact of environmental policy instruments as …
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During the last years more and more discussions came up about the contribution of technology-oriented and technology-intensive industries for employment and economic development. One reason for some of the contradictory evaluations of technology-intensive industries can be attributed to...
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The influence of environmental policy on innovative behaviour of companies has so far received little attention in scientific discourse. Based on recent literature, the paper analyses the impact of requirements, levies, permits, liability laws, and the EC-eco- audit regulation with respect to...
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