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| Title: | | Windows of technological opportunity: do technological booms influence the relationship between firm size and innovativeness?  |
| Authors: | | Degner, Harald |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | FZID discussion papers 15-2010 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | Effect of firm size on innovativeness technological boom Schumpeterian hypothesis |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-4399 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | FZID Discussion Papers, Universität Hohenheim
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