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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181434
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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown
Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010
We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583733
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Incentives and Creativity in Groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690377
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A Technology-gap Approach to Cumulative Growth -Toward an Integrated Model Empirical Evidence for Spain, 1960-1997
Castellacci, Fulvio - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001
not just innovation, accumulation or distribution, but their structural compatibility over time. Many different growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260603
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The Dismantling of the Japanese Model in Consumer Electronics The Case of the Digital Amplifier
Christensen, Jens Frøslev; Olesen, Michael Holm; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004
-based innovation, the current transformation of sound amplification from conventional to digital amplifiers. We study the early … formation of this new technology as especially reflected in the particularly dynamic cluster of innovation in Denmark and extend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273113
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Nascent Entrepreneurs, Innovation and Financing Constraints
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007
Innovative nascent entrepreneurs face the problem of obtaining finance, mainly due to information problems. We use new data on capital seeking start-ups allowing distinction between planning stage and early stage. Being innovative does not affect the probability of having external finance in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839210
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Making Consumer Knowledge Available and Useful the case of the Computer Games Industry
Jeppesen, Lars Bo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001
It has been demonstrated that users occasionally innovate. However, it can now be observed that even end-consumers act as a source novel product designs. A case study of a firm, and “its” consumers - from the computer games industry - illustrates how sourcing of consumer knowledge has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839234
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Diversity of Innovative Strategy as a Source of Technological Performance
Llerena, Patrick; Oltra, Vanessa - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000
This paper explores the impact of diversity of innovative strategies of firms upon the industrial dynamics through a micro-simulation model. We consider two types of firms each one being characterised by a specific innovative strategy. Basically we assume that some cumulative firms adopt an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839256
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Technology Policy and Co-operative R&D the role of Relational Research Capacity
Cusmano, Lucia - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000
Evolutionary theories of technological change and industrial dynamics give primary importance to interaction between heterogeneous agents, endowed with complementary assets and competencies. Accordingly, support to co-operative R&D is central to technology policy, as a mean for increasing system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839257
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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing
Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670799