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Assessing technology-based spin-offs from university support units
Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
also find that higher innovation levels and experience from the parent university are associated with higher efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849637
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Complementarity between technology make and buy in innovation strategies: Evidence from Belgiam manufacturing firms
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771954
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External technology sources: Embodied or disembodied technology acquisition
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the … technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of the firm's innovation strategy. We take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704868
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The capital gains from trade are not enough: Evidence from the environmental accounts of Venezuela and Mexico
Rubio, M. del Mar - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003
In principle, a country can not endure negative genuine savings for long periods of time without experiencing declining consumption. Nevertheless, theoreticians envisage two alternatives to explain how an exporter of non-renewable natural resources could experience permanent negative genuine...
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Did colonization matter for growth? An empirical exploration into the historical causes of Africa's underdevelopment
Bertocchi, Graziella; Canova, Fabio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996
We investigate the impact of 20th--century European colonization on growth in Africa. We find that in the 1960--88 period growth has been faster for dependencies than for colonies; for British and French colonies than for Portuguese, Belgian and Italian ones; and for countries with less economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772408
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Optimised search heuristic combining valid inequalities and tabu search
Fernandes, Susana; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
This paper presents an Optimised Search Heuristic that combines a tabu search method with the verification of violated valid inequalities. The solution delivered by the tabu search is partially destroyed by a randomised greedy procedure, and then the valid inequalities are used to guide the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827495
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When to carry eccentric products? Optimal retail assortment under consumer returns
Alptekinoglu, Aydm; León, Alex Grasas - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
To understand whether retailers should consider consumer returns when merchandising, we study how the optimal assortment of a price-taking retailer is influenced by its return policy. The retailer selects its assortment from an exogenous set of horizontally differentiated products. Consumers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025216
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Network revenue management with product-specific no-shows
Kunnumkal, Sumit; Talluri, Kalyan; Topaloglu, Huseyin - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
Revenue management practices often include overbooking capacity to account for customers who make reservations but do not show up. In this paper, we consider the network revenue management problem with no-shows and overbooking, where the show-up probabilities are specific to each product....
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On the tractability of the piecewise-linear approximation for general discrete-choice network revenue management
Kunnumkal, Sumit; Talluri, Kalyan - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2014
The choice network revenue management (RM) model incorporates customer purchase behavior as customers purchasing products with certain probabilities that are a function of the offered assortment of products, and is the appropriate model for airline and hotel network revenue management, dynamic...
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A new compact linear programming formulation for choice network revenue management
Kunnumkal, Sumit; Talluri, Kalyan - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012
The choice network revenue management model incorporates customer purchase behavior as a function of the offered products, and is the appropriate model for airline and hotel network revenue management, dynamic sales of bundles, and dynamic assortment optimization. The optimization problem is a...
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