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Tuhkuri, Joonas; Lööf, Hans; Mohammadi, Ali; … - 2016

This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped and unique Eurostat International Sourcing Survey. The results are easy to summarize. First, the magnitude of R&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is...

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Co-determination and innovation

Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009

This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...

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Adverse effects of patent pooling on product development and commercialization

Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Zhang, Nanyun - 2013

The conventional wisdom is that the formation of patent pools is welfare enhancing when patents are complementary, since the pool avoids a double-marginalization problem associated with independent licensing. This conventional wisdom relies on the effects that pooling has on downstream prices....

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Verifying high quality: Entry for sale

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2017

When and how do entrepreneurs sell their inventions? To address this issue, we develop an endogenous entry-sale asymmetric information oligopoly model. We show that lowquality inventions are sold directly or used for own entry. Inventors who sell post-entry use entry to credibly reveal...

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Integration and Reorganisation of Industrial R&D: Deficits and Perspectives of Empirical Research

Grimpe, Christoph - 2005

The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and widespread integration project to ensure that a company?s innovative capabilities are carried forward into the future. Previous research has shown, however, that the combined...

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Russia's experience of foresight implementation in global value chain research

Meshkova, Tatiana A.; Moiseichev, Evgenii IA. - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-35

The objective of this paper is to analyse the scope for improving empirical and methodological foundation of global value chain (GVC) research and for making relevant political decisions, primarily through application of foresight methodology based on the latest trend to combine the approaches...

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The Merits of New Pollutants and How to Get Them When Patents Are Granted

Perino, Grischa - 2006

The performance of market based environmental regulation is affected by patents and vice versa. This interaction is …

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Impact of technological change on small and medium enterprises performance in Lagos State

Durowoju, Stella Toyosi - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 743-756

of SMEs to accept new innovative methods that will lead to higher performance of humans and machines for increased … regression technique. The hypothesis tested found that technological change has effect on organizational performance of small and … recorded in the SMEs performance is accounted for by technological change. This result is statistically significant because the …

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Environmentally-oriented innovative strategies and firm performances in services: Micro-evidence from Italy

Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2007

This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance …-related effects (the core of performance indicators) are not significant. Mainstream hypotheses related to eventual negative impacts … performance do not seem to be present. …

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On Backstops and Boomerangs: Environmental R&D under Technological Uncertainty

Goeschl, Timo; Perino, Grischa - 2007

The literature on environmental R&D frequently studies innovation as a two-stage process, with a single R&D event leading from a conventional polluting technology to a perfectly clean backstop. We allow for uncertainty in innovation in that the new technology may turn out to generate a new...

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