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The Innovation Decision in Soviet Industry
Berliner, Joseph S. - The MIT Press
need repair than a new one superseding it has been invented. The Soviet economy, in contrast, did not stress innovation, by … future?" This book is a detailed study of the role of innovation in Soviet industry. While focusing on this specific factor … within the socialist economic structure, then examines their individual effects on the overall process of innovation. With …
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Out of the Crisis
Deming, W. Edwards - The MIT Press
According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management....
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Markets for Technology: The Economics of Innovation and Corporate Strategy
Arora, Ashish; Fosfuri, Andrea; Gambardella, Alfonso - The MIT Press
significant advances in understanding the determinants and consequences of innovation, until recently they have paid little … attention to how innovation functions as an economic process. This book examines the nature and workings of markets for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005237340
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The Effects of R&D Externalities in a Spatial Model
Häckner, Jonas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1990
This paper deals with the physical location of firms although other interpretations are also possible. It is a well-known fact that firms in certain industries tend to cluster. However, since you would expect competition to be more intense when goods are less diversified in a locational sense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818535
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Swedish Multinational Corporations: Recent Trends in Foreign Activities
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Ekholm, Karolina; Grundberg, Lennart - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
This paper presents recent trends in the foreign activities of Swedish multinationals. The focus is on the distribution of production and R&D between the MNCs' domestic and foreign units, and the pattern of trade within the firms. Issues concerning entry modes and the importance of information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600192
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R&D, Learning-by-Doing and the Multinational Growth of Swedish Firms
Swedenborg, Birgitta - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
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R&D and Foreign Sales in Multinationals: A Simultaneous Relationship?
Fors, G.; Svensson, R. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
This paper analyzes the simultaneous relationship between R&D and foreign sales in Swedish multinational enterprises in the manufacturing sector. We argue that this two-way relationship should especially apply to multinationals based in small open economices due to the firms' high dependence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780374
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Multinationals Endogenous Growth and Technological Spillovers: Theory and Evidence.
Baldwin, R.E.; Braconier, H.; Forslid, R. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
FDI has received surprisingly little attention in theoretical and empirical work on openness and growth. This paper presents a theoretical growth model where MNCs directly affect the endogenous growth rate via technological spillovers. This is novel since other endogenous growth models with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780388
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The Long-Run Growth Effects of R&D Subsidies.
Segerstrom, P.S. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
This paper presents a model of R&D-driven growth without scale effects where firms can engage in both horizontal and vertical R&D activities.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486496
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Utilization of R&D Results in the Home and Foreign Plants of Multinationals.
Fors, G. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
This paper analyzes the utilization of R&D results in the home and foreign plants of Swedish maltinational enterprises (MNEs). The empirical findings indicate that the firms' R&D undertaken in the home country is used as an input in both the home and foreign plants of the MNEs.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486505