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2010
Windows of technological opportunity : do technological booms influence the relationship between firm size and innovativeness?
Windows of technological opportunity : do technological booms influence the relationship between firm size and innovativeness?
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Many papers have been written about the effect of firm size on innovativeness, revealing a positive, a negative or a mixed impact. To this day, the so-called Schumpeterian hypothesis of the above-average innovativeness of large firms has been neither confirmed nor rejected, often because of insufficient data or a too-short observation period. Many studies concentrate only on a specific region or a specific sector, or they analyze a very short time period. Windows of technological opportunities, providing technological booms for both firms and sectors, have not yet been investigated. An analysis of Germany?s chemical, metal and electronic-engineering sectors between 1877 and 1932 reveals that the sector-specific long-term relationship between firm size and innovativeness is negative, except during times of specific technological booms. In combination with firm-specific characteristics, this new aspect can contribute to a better understanding of the long-term relationship between firm size and innovativeness.
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Institut für Kulturwissenschaften (bis 2010)
Forschungszentrum Innovation und Dienstleistung
Forschungszentrum Innovation und Dienstleistung
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330 Economics