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The Impact of Firm Size on Innovative Activity--An Empirical Analysis Based on Swiss Firm Data

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 Arvanitis, Spyros

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The impact of firm size on innovation activity was investigated in detail on the basis of firm data for Swiss manufacturing. The study includes estimations of a model of innovation behavior with firm size as an additional explanatory variable, an analysis of the relation between R&D expenditures and firm size in total manufacturing and in several 2-digit industries, as well as exploration of the size-dependence of model variables. No evidence was found for the existence of economies of scale in the innovation activity in Swiss manufacturing. On the other hand, we were able to gather several pieces of information pointing to a size-specific orientation of the innovative activity. Copyright 1997 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Small Business Economics.

Volume (Year): 9 (1997)
Issue (Month): 6 (December)
Pages: 473-90
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  4. Spyros Arvanitis & Nora Sydow & Martin Woerter, 2005. "Is There Any Impact of University-Industry Knowledge Transfer on the Performance of Private Enterprises? – An Empirical Analysis Based¨on Swiss Firm Data," KOF Working papers 05-117, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Inkmann, Joachim, 2005. "Inverse probability weighted generalised empirical likelihood estimators : firm size and R&D revisited," Discussion Paper 131, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
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