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Breaking the Waves: A Poisson Regression Approach to Schumpeterian Clustering of Basic Innovations

Silverberg, Gerald; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2000

The Schumpeterian theory of long waves has given rise to an intense debate on the existenceof clusters of basic innovations. Silverberg and Lehnert have criticized the empirical part ofthis literature on several methodological accounts. In this paper, we propose the methodologyof Poisson...

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European productivity gaps: Is R&D the solution?

Meister, Christoph; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2004

Industrialization, and the association between technological advance and economic growth, brought Europe world economic leadership in the 19th century. However, in the course of the 20th century, European leadership was lost to the United States, as well as a number of dynamic Asian economies,...

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Does it matter where patent citations come from? Inventor versus examiner citations in European patents

Criscuolo, Paola; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2005

This paper investigates whether the distinction between patent citations added by the inventor or the examiner is relevant for the issue of geographical concentration of knowledge flows (as embodied in citations). The distinction between inventor and examiner citations enables us to work with a...

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Mapping Technological Trajectories as Patent Citation Networks. A Study on the History of Fuel Cell Research

Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2005

Technological change is argued to be taking place along ordered and selective pat-terns, shaped jointly by technological and scientific principles, and economic and other societal factors. Historical, descriptive analysis is often used to analyze these ''trajectories''. Recently, quantitative...

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The Voyage of the Beagle in Innovation Systems Land.Explorations on Sectors, Innovation, Heterogeneity and Selection

Srholec, Martin; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …

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Economic development, growth, institutions and geography

Bhupatiraju, Samyukta; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

In this paper, we test the Rodrik et al (2004) framework to explain differences in development levels across countries by using a broader set of definitions for institutions, geography and economic variables. We use a multi-faceted database to measure institutions in an attempt to go beyond the...

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The motivations, organisation and outcomes of university-industry interaction in the Netherlands

Freitas, Bodas; Maria, Isabel; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

This paper aims at analysing the impact of institutional and organizational factors on bridging industrial and university motivations for collaboration, as well as on the content, management and outcome of this relationship, in the Netherlands. In particular, we explore which type of projects,...

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