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Concurrent Collaboration in Research and Development

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Integration is the essence of current research and development (R&D) activity in many organizations. Integration can be established in various ways depending on the type, size and intricacy in organizational functions and products. Nevertheless, research and development (R&D) has become an...

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Patents as Collateral

Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Bruno, Amable - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....

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Services innovation: assimilation, differentiation, inversion and integration

Gallouj, Faïz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This chapter aims to provide a review of the literature on innovation in services and to focus on the analytical … strategies carried out in order to fill in the innovation gap in the service economy (i.e. the difference between what the … traditional innovation indicators are capable of capturing, and the reality of innovation activities undertaken in a given economy …

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Product differentiation and systematic risk: theory and empirical evidence

Bazdresch, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Firms producing differentiated products have high margins and therefore low risk. As a result firms invest more into developing differentiated products when they perceive risk is high. Higher risk also implies higher product skewness towards more differentiated products and therefore higher...

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The Significance of Research and Development for Economic Growth: The Case of Pakistan

Khan, Jangraiz; Khattak, Rehman; Ur, Naeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper concentrates on the significance of Research and Development (R&D) for economic growth in the developing economy of Pakistan. The paper also questioned the major macro determinants of R&D in Pakistan. The study used time series data for the period 1971- 2008. The results obtained from...

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Research and Development of an Optimally Regulated Monopolist with Unknown Costs

SAGLAM, ISMAIL - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies whether a monopolist with private marginal cost information has incentives to make cost-reducing innovations through research and development (R&D) when its output and price are regulated according to the incentive-compatible mechanism of Baron and Myerson (1982). Under...

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Implications of liberalization policies on government support to R&D: lessons from electricity markets

Erdogdu, Erkan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Since the early 1980s, electricity industry reforms have been initiated in more than half of the countries in the world. Among the primary targets of these reform schemes, there has been an increase in efficiency of the sector; and it is implicitly assumed that government support to energy...

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Endogenous Technical Change, Spillovers, and Market Structure

Behringer, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper investigates the effect of spillovers in a model of endogenous technical change resulting from learning or network effects on the existence of a lower bound to market concentration.

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Productivity in China's high technology industry: Regional heterogeneity and R&D

Zhang, Rui; Sun, Kai; Delgado, Michael; Kumbhakar, Subal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper analyzes the impact of Research and Development (R&D) on the productivity of China's high technology industry. In order to capture important differences in the effect of R&D on output that arise from geographic and socioeconomic differences across three major regions in China, we use...

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Neglected infectious diseases: are push and pull incentive mechanisms suitable for promoting research?

Mueller-Langer, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Infectious diseases are among the main causes of death and disability in developing countries, and they are a major reason for the health disparity between rich and poor countries. One of the reasons for this public health tragedy is a lack of lifesaving essential medicines, which either do not...

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