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R&D cooperation and spillovers: Some empirical evidence
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The … cooperation may serve as a vehicle to manage information flows. Our results thus suggest that on the one hand the information … sharing and coordination aspects of incoming spillovers are crucial in understanding cooperation, while on the other hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772409
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Control of the costs of quality management: A review or current practice in Spain
Amat, Oriol; Blake, John - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248454
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The organization of research corporations and researcher ability
Cassiman, Bruno - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
This paper analyzes the formation of Research Corporations as an alternative governance structure for performing R&D compared to pursuing in-house R&D projects. Research Corporations are private for-profit research centers that bring together several firms with similar research goals. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005707949
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The effect of university culture and stakeholders' perceptions on university-business linking activities
Gassol, Jeannine Horowitz - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
The present work discusses the effects of university culture and structure on university-business relations, focusing on knowledge transfer activities. It puts forward the thesis that when links between university and business are introduced into the university system as a turn-key proposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704908
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Monitoring bank performance in the presence of risk
Epure, Mircea; Lafuente, Esteban - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012
This paper proposes a managerial control tool that integrates risk in efficiency measures. Building on existing efficiency specifications, our proposal reflects the real banking technology and accurately models the relationship between desirable and undesirable outputs. Specifically, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891943
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Medición de las preferencias de los consumidores sobre el comportamiento socialmente responsable de las empresas
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Merino, Anna - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
La creciente globalización económica y la mayor transparencia informativa han favorecido la aparición de “consumidores socialmente responsables” y han marcado el pistoletazo de salida para las empresas en su carrera para posicionarse como agentes preocupados por el bienestar social. En...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772364
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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...
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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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