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Agglomeration and the Location of Innovative Activity

Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Only a few years ago the conventional wisdom predicted that globalization would render the demise of the region as a meaningful unit of economic analysis. Yet the obsession of policy-makers around the globe to 'create the next Silicon Valley' reveals the increased importance of geographic...

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Innovation in Cities: Science-Based Diversity, Specialization and Localized Competition

Audretsch, David B; Feldman, Maryann P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

effect of the composition of economic activity on innovation. We test whether the specialization of economic activity within … together complementary activities, better promotes innovation. The evidence provides considerable support for the diversity …

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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …

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Legal Institutions, Innovation and Growth

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development — periods when legal …

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Asymmetric Information, Agency Costs and Innovative Entry

Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

the value of their potential innovation in industries characterized by a greater degree of knowledge asymmetries. Based on …

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Employment Protection, International Specialization, and Innovation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper develops a model to analyse the implications of firing costs on incentives for R&D and international specialization. The key idea is that, to avoid paying firing costs, the country with a rigid labour market will tend to produce relatively secure goods, at late stages in their product...

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Endogenous Innovation Spillovers and Technology Policy

Katsoulacos, Yannis; Ulph, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

We examine a model of R&D competition and cooperation in the presence of spillovers. Unlike virtually all the literature, however, we treat these spillovers as endogenous and under the control of firms. We show that it is then essential to make a number of distinctions that are ignored in the...

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Innovative Clusters and the Industry Life Cycle

Audretsch, David B; Feldman, Maryann P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The purpose of this paper is to link the propensity for innovative activity to cluster spatially to the stage of the industry life cycle. The theory of knowledge spillovers, based on the knowledge production function for innovative activity, suggests that geographic proximity matters most in...

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Small Firms and R&D Spillovers: Evidence from Italy

Audretsch, David B; Vivarelli, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …

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