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Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
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This paper deals with innovative activities of firms, the resulting market success as well as the interdependencies between both. In a first theoretical part, different cases of those interdependencies are investigated by the way of a simple model based on replicator dynamics. It is shown that...
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incumbents are not willing or able to exploit. Accordingly, incumbent innovation determines exploitable knowledge externalities … for spinoffs while, at the same time, spinoffs are expected to influence incumbent innovation. To overcome this problem of … by spinoffs does, indeed, have a positive impact on incumbent innovation. …
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innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …
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This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We … incentive for private innovation activities. In contrast to the standard Schumpeterian growth framework, we account for industry … heterogeneity in terms of innovation potential. This extension allows to bring government demand policy within the realm of the …
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An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governance and corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managers stock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm. This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...
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The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...
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In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus...
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The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206568
on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where …
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