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Co-determination and Innovation
Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes
Kerr, William R.; Kominers, Scott Duke - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012
We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...
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Tell Me Who You Patent With and I'll Tell You Who You Are: Evidence from Inter-Regional Patenting Networks in Three Emerging Technological Fields
Marsan, Giulia Ajmone; Primi, Annalisa - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2012
This paper presents an overview of co-patenting trends at the national and regional level in three technology fields (biotechnology, telecommunications and renewable energy), across regions in the OECD and emerging economies, from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. After a general introduction on...
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The Performance Effect of Environmental Innovations
Wörter, Martin; Stucki, Tobias; Soltmann, Christian - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2013
such innovations affect performance. To analyse the relationship between green innovation and performance, new industry … results show that green inventions are U-shape related to performance. However, the turning point is quite high and hence only …
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Mobility of ideas for innovation: The role of inventor-specific knowledge flows
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2015
words, the larger the knowledge pool of an inventor entering (leaving) the firm, the more the firm’s innovation performance … pharmaceuticals and mechanical engineering such that the mobility of an inventor to a firm increases its innovation performance but … the mobility of an inventor from a firm does not affect its innovation performance. We further find that particularly …
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Patent Value and Citations: Creative Destruction or Strategic Disruption?
Abrams, David S.; Akcigit, Ufuk; Popadak, Jillian - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013
Prior work suggests that more valuable patents are cited more and this view has become standard in the empirical innovation literature. Using an NPE-derived dataset with patent-specific revenues we find that the relationship of citations to value in fact forms an inverted-U, with fewer citations...
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The ICT Component of Technological Diversification: Is there an underestimation of ICT capabilities among the world's largest companies?
Mendonça, Sandro - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2002
This empirical paper analyses the importance of information and communications technologies (ICT) in the technological diversification trend among the world's large industrial firms. The objective of the research is twofold. First, to emphasise the emerging differences among technologies when...
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(When) Do Stronger Patents Increase Continual Innovation?
Chen, Yongmin; Pan, Shiyuan; Zhang, Tianle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Under continual innovation, greater patent strength expands innovating firms’ profit against imitation, but also shifts profit from current to past innovators. We show how the impact of patents on innovation, as determined by these two opposing effects, varies with industry characteristics....
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive …
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