Search
Results
-
Competition and R&D cooperation with universities and competitors
(2011)KOF Working PapersThis paper analyzes the relationship between competition and R&D cooperation with universities and competitors. Our simple model predicts that more competitors reduce the incentives for horizontal cooperation as it diminishes the gains from “collusion”. Assuming that the value of synergies and spillovers created by cooperation depends on competition intensity reveals two distinct and opposing incentives for cooperation. While synergies ...Working Paper -
Vocational Education and Productivity in the Swiss Business Sector
(2010)KOF StudiesIn this study we investigate the effects of three categories of employees with different levels of formal education (upper secondary level (“Berufslehre); tertiary level other than academic university (“Fachhochschulen”, etc.); and academic university level) on average labour productivity in an “augmented production function” framework (a) at firm level for the period 1994-2005 and (b) at industry level for the period 1991-2005. Throughout ...Report -
Technological Diversification and Innovation Performance
(2013)KOF Working PapersThis paper analyzes the impact of technological diversity on innovation inputs and success using Swiss firm-level panel data. While we do not find any impact of diversity on R&D intensity, we confirm a positive impact of diversity on patent applications as suggested by the literature. However, since patent applications reflect an intermediate innovation input rather than output, we extend the analysis to the share of sales generated by ...Working Paper -
-
Potenziale für Cleantech im Industrie- und Dienstleistungsbereich in der Schweiz
(2011)KOF StudiesReport -
Vertical Educational Diversity and Innovation Performance
(2015)KOF Working PapersThis paper uses panel data of Swiss firms to analyze the impact of education?level diversity in the workforce on innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within?firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, ...Working Paper