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The Open Economics Journal | 2010

Are Firm Innovativeness and Firm Age Relevant for the Supply of Vocational Training? - A Study Based on Swiss Micro Data

Spyridon Arvanitis

In this study we investigated the determinants (a) of the propensity of Swiss firms to train apprentices and (b) of the intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition conditions on the product market are possible determining factors that are especially emphasized in this investigation. In a further step, we analyzed the impact of apprentice training on labour productivity when apprentice training is considered as an additional production factor in the framework of a production function. We found that the skill composition of the employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or negative role, even if not at the same extent, in determining the propensity and/or intensity of apprentice training. A further finding was that training propensity and/or training intensity correlate negatively with labour productivity.


Archive | 2010

Innovation, Competition and Incentives for R&D

Martin Wörter; Christian Rammer; Spyridon Arvanitis

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively related to the degree of product obsolescence in t, and negatively to the degree of substitutability in t in both countries. Further, we find that rapid product obsolescence provides positive incentives for higher – primarily product-oriented – R&D investments in t+1, while high substitutability exerts negative incentives for future R&D investment.


Druid Academy Conference 2015 | 2014

Imitation versus Innovation: What Makes the Difference?

Spyridon Arvanitis; Florian Seliger

The main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on possible differences between these two kinds of innovative activity. Thus, it tries to answer the following questions: (a) what are the determinants of imitative performance compared to determinants of innovative performance and (b) what are the determinants of switching from imitative to innovative behavior compared to imitators and innovators showing persistence over time. The study is based on Swiss firm data. In sum, our findings indicate that imitating firms are significantly more ‘extroverted’ than innovating firms because their activities are much more related to external R&D activities and cooperation and medium-educated personnel. Innovating firms do not rely to the same extent on the exploration of external knowledge. Their rather ‘introverted’ behavior seems be more related with intense exploitation of internal resources. Further, the profiles of different types of innovating firms show that an innovation performance hierarchy exists ranking from occasional innovators through switchers to persistently innovating firms.


The Open Economics Journal | 2010

Are Firm Innovativeness and Firm Age Relevant for the Supply of Vocational Training

Spyridon Arvanitis

In this study we investigated the determinants of the propensity of Swiss firms to train apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition conditions on the product market are determining factors that were especially emphasized in this investigation. We found that the skill composition of the employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a discernible role, even if not at the same extent, in determining the propensity of apprentice training. The data used in this study were collected in the course of four surveys among Swiss enterprises in the years 1996, 1999, 2002 and 2005 using a questionnaire which included besides questions on basic firm characteristics also several innovation indicators. New elements of the analysis that distinguish it from already done work on this subject, especially in Switzerland, are: (a) the focus on the role of innovation and firm age for apprentice training; (b) the consideration of effects of competition on the product market; (c) the separate investigation of three sectors of the economy (manufacturing; services; construction); (d) the wide spectrum of determinants of training propensity that are taken into consideration; (e) the use of a panel of firms covering a period of about ten years (1995-2004).


Economics of Innovation and New Technology | 2015

Exploration or Exploitation of Knowledge from Universities: Does It Make a Difference?

Spyridon Arvanitis; Martin Woerter

In the first step, based on the existing theoretical and empirical literature, we develop a series of hypotheses with respect to the relative importance of possible determinants of exploration and exploitation of knowledge in collaboration with universities and test them on Swiss firm data. In the second step, we investigate the impact on innovation performance of knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation. We obtain a clear pattern of the differences between firms that are engaged both in exploitative and explorative activities (‘exploration’-oriented firms) and purely ‘exploitation’-oriented firms. We find that exploration-oriented firms have a greater knowledge absorptive capacity, are technologically more diverse and are strongly exposed to intensive non-price competition compared with exploitation-oriented firms. We further find a positive effect on innovation performance for exploitation-oriented firms but not for those that were exploration oriented.


Archive | 2014

Die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Tirol im Lichte des RCI 2013

Spyridon Arvanitis; Tobias Stucki; Martin Wörter

Die Landesregierung von Tirol erteilte der ETH Zurich, KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle den Auftrag, die Wettbewerbsfahigkeit Tirols im Lichte der Ergebnisse des RCI (Regional Competitiveness Index) 2013 zu untersuchen. Dabei soll vor allem der RCI als Wettbewerbsmass und dessen Ergebnisse fur Tirol einer kritischen Wurdigung unterzogen werden. Daruber hinaus sollen Stossrichtungen fur wirtschaftspolitische Massnahmen aufgezeigt werden.


KOF Studies | 2014

Die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Tirol im Lichte des RCI 2013: Studie im Auftrag des 'Land Tirol' Abteilung Landesentwicklung und Zukunftsstrategie

Spyridon Arvanitis; Tobias Stucki; Martin Wörter

Die Landesregierung von Tirol erteilte der ETH Zurich, KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle den Auftrag, die Wettbewerbsfahigkeit Tirols im Lichte der Ergebnisse des RCI (Regional Competitiveness Index) 2013 zu untersuchen. Dabei soll vor allem der RCI als Wettbewerbsmass und dessen Ergebnisse fur Tirol einer kritischen Wurdigung unterzogen werden. Daruber hinaus sollen Stossrichtungen fur wirtschaftspolitische Massnahmen aufgezeigt werden.


Archive | 2012

The Choice of Foreign Locations of Swiss MNEs: An Analysis Based on Firm Data

Spyridon Arvanitis; Heinz Hollenstein; Tobias Stucki

In this paper, the parent firms’ choice of FDI locations is analyzed based on a unique firm-level dataset for Swiss MNEs. The data allows a detailed characterization of parent companies, their foreign subsidiaries and the two-way trade flows between parent companies and foreign affiliates. In combination with information on the hosts regions of the FDI, the data allows to identify the factors determining the choice among nine alternative destinations. As firm-level studies are quite rare so far and, if available, are based on only few firm characteristics, this research provides substantial new insights.


KOF Studies | 2011

Bestimmungsfaktoren der Performance des schweizerischen Breitbandmarktes im internationalen Vergleich

Spyridon Arvanitis; Tobias Stucki; Martin Wörter

Ziel der Studie ist die Bewertung der Performance des Breitbandmarktes in der Schweiz im internationalen Vergleich unter besonderer Beachtung des Einflusses von regulierungs- und wettbewerbsrelevanten Grossen. Ein zentrales Kriterium zur Beurteilung des Breitbandmarktes ist die Verbreitung von Breitbandtechnologien innerhalb eines Landes. Die am haufigsten verwendete Statistik zum Vergleich der Verbreitung der Breitbandtechnologie zwischen Landern stammt von der OECD. Fur alle OECD Lander werden dort basierend auf Anschlussdaten die Anzahl Anschlusse pro 100 Einwohner eines Landes miteinander verglichen. In der neuesten Statistik von Dezember 2008 belegt die Schweiz mit 33.5 Anschlussen pro 100 Einwohner den vierten Rang. Dies mag auf den ersten Blick erstaunen, hat doch die Schweiz den Telekommunikationsmarkt im Vergleich mit anderen Landern erst sehr spat zu offnen begonnen. In dieser Studie wird anhand von okonometrischen Analysen untersucht, von welchen Faktoren die Verbreitung von Breitbandinternet primar bestimmt wird. Die wichtigste Erkenntnis unserer okonometrischen Analyse der Bestimmungsfaktoren der Breitbandpenetration auf der Basis von OECD-Daten fur die Periode 2007/2008 ist, dass fur den kurzen Zeitraum, den wir untersucht haben, die strukturellen Faktoren (wie GDP pro Kopf, Grad der Ungleichmassigkeit der Einkommensverteilung, Ausbildungsniveau, Bevolkerungsdichte etc.) ein betrachtlich hoheren Erklarungsbeitrag fur die Verbreitung von Breitbandanschlussen beisteuern als Variablen, die unter dem Politikeinfluss stehen, namlich der Preis, die Variable fur den technologiebezogenen Wettbewerb (welche den Inter-Plattform-Wettbewerb widerspiegelt) und die regulierungsbezogenen Variablen. Unter den regulierungsbezogenen Faktoren sind (a) die spat eingefuhrte Entbundelung, (b) hohe institutionell bedingte Eintrittsbarrieren und (c) ein hoher Staatanteil am Telekommunikationsmarkt, die negativ auf die Penetration wirken. Die Analyse der Abweichung vom OECD-Mittelwert der in der okonometrischen Analyse berucksichtigten Bestimmungsfaktoren fur die einzelnen Lander zeigt, dass die Schweiz hinsichtlich der meisten strukturellen Faktoren zu den jeweils sechs Landern gehort, welche die grossten (absolute) Abweichungen vom OECD-Mittelwert, somit auch die starksten (positiven) Penetrationseffekte aufweisen. Bezuglich der Preisvariablen befindet sich die Schweiz (zusammen mit Danemark, Island und den USA) in der Nahe des OECD-Durchschnitts und somit im Mittelfeld. Die im Vergleich spate Entbundelung und der immer noch hohe Staatsanteil am Telekommunikationsmarkt sind die zwei regulierungsbezogenen Faktoren, bei welchen die Schweiz schlechter als der OECD-Durchschnitt abschneidet. Da sich der Staatsanteil in unserem Modell allerdings nur schwach auf die Penetration auswirkt, fallt diese Differenz gesamthaft kaum ins Gewicht. Dies im Gegensatz zu den Anzahl Jahren seit der Entbundelung, welche sich deutlich starker auswirken. Die Resultate zeigen, dass das gute Abschneiden der Schweiz bezuglich der Verbreitung von Breitbandinternet primar auf die gute Ausgangslage bezuglich der strukturellen Faktoren im Vergleich mit anderen OECD-Landern zuruckzufuhren ist. Hatte man mit der Entbundelung des Telekommunikationsmarktes allerdings fruher begonnen, hatte womoglich eine noch hohere Penetration erreicht werden konnen.


Environmental and Resource Economics | 2010

Factors determining the adoption of energy-saving technologies in Swiss firms

Spyridon Arvanitis; Marius Ley

This study investigates the factors that determine the inter-firm and intra-firm adoption rates of energy-saving technologies. These factors can be on theoretical terms firm-specific rank effects, inducement effects, adoption barriers as well as order, stock and epidemic effects that are related to different kinds of external effects. Data for 2324 Swiss firms for the year 2008 are used that contain information about four categories of energy-saving technology applications (electromechanical and electronic applications; applications in motor vehicle and traffic engineering; in building construction; and in power-generating processes) that are studied separately. The results show that there are significant differences with respect to rank effects and adoption barriers between inter-and intra-firm diffusion. In practically all cases positive epidemic and/or network effects outweigh potential negative stock and order effects. Inducement effects, particularly those traced back to intrinsic motivations for environment-friendly technologies, show clearly positive effects on the adoption rates.

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