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Knowledge and Technology Transfer between Universities and Private Enterprises in Switzerland 2011
(2012)KOF StudiesReport -
Exploration or Exploitation of Knowledge from Universities
(2012)KOF Working PapersIn a first step, we developed based on existing theoretical and empirical literature a series of hypotheses with respect to the relative importance of possible determinants of exploration and exploitation of knowledge in collaboration with universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation. We obtained a clear pattern ...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