Windows of technological opportunity : do technological booms influence the relationship between firm size and innovativeness?

Degner, Harald

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Degner, Harald

Windows of technological opportunity : do technological booms influence the relationship between firm size and innovativeness?

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URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-4399
URL: http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2010/439/

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Innovation , Unternehmensgröße , Technischer Fortschritt , Schumpeter, Joseph Alois , Konjunkturaufschwung

Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):

effect of firm size on innovativeness , technological boom , Schumpeterian hypothesis

Institut 1:

Forschungszentrum Innovation und Dienstleistung

Institut 2:

Institut für Kulturwissenschaften (bis 2010)

DDC-Sachgruppe:

Wirtschaft

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ResearchPaper

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FZID discussion papers

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Englisch

Erstellungsjahr:

2010

Publikationsdatum:

22.03.2010

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Veröffentlichungsvertrag mit der Universitätsbibliothek Hohenheim ohne Print-on-Demand

Kurzfassung auf Englisch:

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.