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Global Technology Cycles and Local Economic Performance
(2023)KOF Working PapersThis paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-speciffc factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and local technology cycles. We further find a significant positive correlation between the estimated global technology index and a country's economic ...Working Paper -
Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT) Activities Between Universities and Firms in Switzerland: The Main Facts
(2005)KOF Working PapersThis study is part of a large project aiming at the investigation of a) extent and b) economic relevance of knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) between science institutions (universities, universities of a pplied science and other public re search institutions) and private corporations. Under knowledge and technology transfer we understand very broadly any activities targeted at transferring knowledge an d technology that may help a ...Working Paper -
Is There Any Impact of University-Industry Knowledge Transfer on the Performance of Private Enterprises? – An Empirical Analysis Based on Swiss Firm Data
(2005)KOF Working PapersThis study investigates the impacts of a palette of Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT) activities (general information, educational and research activities, activities related with technical infrastructure, and consulting) (a) on several innovation indicators (a1) in the framework of an innovation equation with variables of endogenized KTT activities (overall activities, specific forms of activities) as additional determinants of ...Working Paper -
Knowledge Spillovers and their Impact on Innovation Success - A New Approach Using Patent Backward Citations
(2016)KOF Working PapersWe propose a new patent-based measure of knowledge spillovers that calculates technological proximity based on firms that were identified via patent backward citations links. We argue that this measure has a couple of advantages as compared to the 'standard' measure proposed by Jaffe: First, it reflects spillovers from both domestic and foreign technologically 'relevant' firms, second, it is more precise because it only takes into account ...Working Paper -
The (Anti-)Competitive Effect of Intellectual Property Rights
(2019)KOF Working PapersWe test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a large sample of Swiss firms. We find that better appropriability conditions at the industry level raise the number of competitors. However, conditional on the given industry structure, individual firms face fewer competitors, if they actually use IPRs. The further impact of fewer competitors is to raise R&D, when ...Working Paper -
Diversity Structure of the Schumpeterian Evolution. An Axiomatic Approach
(2006)KOF Working PapersThe purpose of the paper is to impose the diversity structure on the Schumpeterian evolution modelled axiomatically within a dynamical system approach to the ArrowDebreu theory of general equilibrium. In this framework two basic forms of economic life studied by Schumpeter, i.e., the circular flow and economic development are investigated as specific properties of a dynamic system, where single production systems being the parts of the ...Working Paper -
Eurostars The International Programme for Research Intensive SMEs A Joint Swiss Danish Impact Study
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Competition and Persistence of R&D
(2011)KOF Working PapersThis paper investigates the R&D persistence of R&D active firms in different markets with different intensities of competition, based on firm-level panel data for the period 1996-2008. In a dynamic setting of the empirical model it turns out that persistence is strongly related to market competition (measured by the number of principal competitors). Persistence of R&D expenditures is more likely to be observed in markets with few principal ...Working Paper -
University-Industry Knowledge Interaction in Switzerland: What University Scientists Think about Co-operation with Private Enterprises
(2006)KOF Working PapersThis study explores the factors determining the propensity of Swiss science institutions at the level of a single institute or department to interact with private enterprises in Switzerland (universities and other research institution), i.e. to get involved in knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) activities in order to provide firms with scientific knowledge in research fields which are relevant for their own innovation activities, ...Working Paper -
The adoption of green energy technologies: The role of policies in an international comparison
(2016)KOF Working PapersWe contribute to the existing research about policy‐induced technology adoption in several ways. First, we suggest a new survey design to measure the energy‐related policy environment. Second, we simultaneously estimate the policy effects for the adoption propensity and the adoption intensity simultaneously and, third, we conduct an international comparison of the policy effects. Based on a representative sample of firms for Austria, ...Working Paper