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Foreign technology acquisition, spillovers, and sunk costs: evidence from plant-level data
Lopez, Ricardo - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2008) 11, pp. 1-7
This paper studies empirically the determinants of foreign technology acquisition through licenses. We extend the previous literature by examining spillover effects of general licensing activity in the sector as well as in downstream sectors.
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Socio-technical transition pathways and social networks: a toolkit for empirical innovation studies
Morone, Piergiuseppe; Lopolito, Antonio - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 4, pp. 2720-2731
In this note we investigate socio-technical transition pathways concentrating our attention on innovation niches … formations. Specifically, we present a methodological conceptualization of innovation-niches and propose a preliminary protocol … of innovation-niches propose in this paper. Although preliminary, we believe this study represents an important step in a …
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Innovation, Growth and Convergence in the Euro-Mediterranean Area: Implications for MENA Countries
Péridy, Nicolas - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 4, pp. 2978-2986
This paper focuses on the innovation gap between countries in the Euro-Mediterranean (Euromed) area and its … implications in terms of growth and convergence. Using a large set of innovation variables, we estimate a growth model à la Barro … which shows that differences in innovation between countries explain differences in growth of per capita GDP within this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692046
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Effect Of Firm Innovation On Labour Force Csomposition: The Case Of Italian Manufacturing
Nardis, Sergio De; Ventura, Marco - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 338-353
This paper investigates the causal relationship between innovation and labour force reallocation within the firm … inter-firms and sectors reallocations, innovation activity can be effective in hampering immigration flows from lagging … flow of graduated people took place the innovation process was not effective in increasing the requirement of high …
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Patent protection and innovation in a vertical structure
Basak, Debasmita; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 837-842
We show a new way through which patent protection affects innovation. We show that patent protection may reduce the … final goods producers' incentives for innovation in industries with imperfectly competitive input markets. The input market …
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Innovation and Growth in the Grossman-Helpman's 1991 Model with Increasing Returns.
Guarini, Giulio - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 147-155
In this paper I consider the 1991 Grossman-Helpman model which analyses the role of innovation on growth. The model …-Helpman model unchanged, I analyse the influence of the rate of innovation on three variables: the rate of growth of final output …
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The Effects of Consumption Externalities in An Innovation-Driven Growth Model
Hori, Takeo - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 2, pp. 1403-1412
We examine how consumption externalities affect R&D activities by using a simple innovation-driven growth model where …
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R&D and firm growth rate variance
Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 702-708
Investment in R&D is positively associated with the variance of sales growth and, to a lesser extent, employment growth. The magnitude of this effect has not increased in recent decades, however.
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High-growth firms, innovation and the distance to the frontier
Hölzl, Werner; Friesenbichler, Klaus - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 2, pp. 1016-1024
This paper studies the differences in the R&D and innovation behaviour of high-growth firms for 16 EU countries. The … results confirm that R&D and innovation are important characteristics for high-growth firms in countries close to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552411
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Process R&D in Monopoly under Demand Uncertainty
Lambertini, Luca - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2006) 14, pp. 1-9
I investigate R&D efforts for process innovation in a monopoly with uncertain demand. Two different models are proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005110638