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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2007
The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312284
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R&D in Cleaner Technology and International Trade
Youssef, Slim Ben - 2004
We consider a dynamic three-stage game played by two regulator-firm hierarchies to capture the scale and technological effects of opening markets to international trade. Each firm produces one good sold on the market. Firms can invest in R&D in order to lower their fixed emission/output ratio...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324894
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Leadership cycles
Denicolò, Vincenzo; Zanchettin, Piercarlo - 2010
We study a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth that produces stochastic leadership cycles. Over a cycle, industry leaders can innovate several successive times in the same industry, gradually increasing the magnitude of their technological lead before being replaced by a new entrant....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272451
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Social Capital, R&D and Industrial Districts
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Mancinelli, … - 2005
The main idea behind this paper is that social capital is not, as generally suggested by the socio-economic literature, an individual attitude towards something which does not imply privately appropriable economic benefits. Actually, SC might and should be interpreted as a public component of an...
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