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Analyse des Wissens- und Technologietransfers in der Schweiz aus Sicht der Unternehmen
(2020)Schriftenreihe SBFI ~ Forschung und Innovation in der Schweiz 2020Working Paper -
Competition, R&D and Innovation
(2013)WIFO working papersTo address the relationship between innovation and competition we jointly estimate the opportunity, production, and impact functions of innovation in a simultaneous system. Based on Swiss micro-data, we apply a 3-SLS system estimation. The findings confirm a robust inverted-U relationship, in which a rise in the number of competitors at low levels of initial competition increases the firm's research effort, but at a diminishing rate, and ...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 -
Eurostars The International Programme for Research Intensive SMEs A Joint Swiss Danish Impact Study
(2019)SERI dossiersWorking Paper -
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 -
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 -
Determinants of Green Innovation
(2012)KOF Working PapersBased on a comprehensive data set comprising 13 countries, 22 industries and a period of 30 years we investigate the impact of internal and external knowledge pools of both green and ‘other than green’ technologies on green patent activities. It turned out that the internal green knowledge stock is positively related to green patent activities with a considerably large marginal value. The country’s green knowledge stock and the green ...Working Paper -
Analysis of knowledge and technology transfer in Switzerland – the perspective of the enterprises
(2020)SERI dossiers ~ Research and Innovation in Switzerland 2020Working Paper -
Development and Utilization of Energy-related Technologies, Economic Performance and the Role of Policy Instruments
(2016)KOF Working PapersThe present study investigates the effects of energy-related technologies on economic performance at firm level. We distinguish clearly between adoption and use of energy-related technologies (process innovation in the broad sense) and product innovation in energy-related fields. We take into consideration four energy-related policy instruments (and expected demand for energy-related new products and services). We investigate the possibility ...Working Paper