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Lost in transmission? : stock market impacts of the 2006 European gas crisis

Oberndorfer, Ulrich (contributor); … - 2007

Around the turn of the year 2005/2006, the Russian freezing of natural gas exports to the Ukraine led to a European gas crisis. Using event study technique, we first investigate whether the Russian announcement of suspension of gas deliveries, this suspension itself as well as its withdrawal,...

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Innovation and information technology in services

Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...

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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector : empirical evidence at the firm level

Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert Helmut - 1999

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly...

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The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services : evidence from firm level panel data

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 2000 - Revised January 2000

This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...

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Do R&D subsidies matter? : evidence for the German service sector

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - 2001

In recent times the service sector is often called the driving force of today's economies. This paper analyses the innovative activities of German service firms. We investigate whether firms that receive public subsidies for innovation projects engage more in innovative activities than others....

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Public research and industrial innovations in Germany

Beise, Marian; Stahl, Harald - 1998

This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research at universities, polytechnics and federal research labs on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of public research institutions. In questioning 2,300 companies...

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Knowledge creates markets : the influence of entrepreneurial support and patent rights on academic entrepreneurship

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin; … - 2016 - This version: April 2016

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge Creates Markets that set up new infrastructure to...

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Individual versus institutional ownership of university-discovered inventions

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin; … - 2015

We examine how the ownership of intellectual property rights influences patenting of university-discovered inventions. In 2002, Germany transferred patent rights from faculty members to their universities. To identify the effect on the volume of patenting, we exploit the researcher-level...

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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2014

This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...

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The retention effect of training : portability, visibility, and credibility

Dietz, Daniel; Zwick, Thomas - 2016

This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees’ retention in the training company. It for the …, visibility, and credibility of training. Based on an extensive German linked-employer-employee data set with detailed information … on training history (WeLL-ADIAB), we show that training increases employees’ retention. We compare the probability to …

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