International Firm Activities and Innovation: Evidence from Knowledge Production Functions for German Firms
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International Firm Activities and Innovation: Evidence from Knowledge Production Functions for German Firms. / Wagner, Joachim.
In: The ICFAI Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2008, p. 47-62.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - International Firm Activities and Innovation: Evidence from Knowledge Production Functions for German Firms
AU - Wagner, Joachim
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Using a knowledge framework and a rich set of plant level data, this study demonstrates that in Germany firms that are active in international markets as exporters or foreign direct investors do generate more new knowledge than firms which sell in the national market only. These differences are not only due to a larger firm size, or different industries, or the use of more researchers in these firms, but due to the fact that these globally engaged firms learn more from external sources too ...
AB - Using a knowledge framework and a rich set of plant level data, this study demonstrates that in Germany firms that are active in international markets as exporters or foreign direct investors do generate more new knowledge than firms which sell in the national market only. These differences are not only due to a larger firm size, or different industries, or the use of more researchers in these firms, but due to the fact that these globally engaged firms learn more from external sources too ...
KW - Economics
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 6
SP - 47
EP - 62
JO - The ICFAI Journal of Knowledge Management
JF - The ICFAI Journal of Knowledge Management
SN - 0972-9216
IS - 2
ER -