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For the People and by the People : A New Proposal for Defining Industry Standards in Computer Software

Duane, Matthew John - 2014

My note, titled For the People and by the People: A New Proposal for Defining Industry Standards in Computer Software, focuses on the increasingly contentious world of standard setting organizations (SSOs) in the software and hardware industries, where industry leaders and upstarts alike jostle...

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Cluster Performance Reconsidered : Structure, Linkages and Paths in the German Biotechnology Industry, 1996-2003

Häussler, Carolin - 2014

We examine the evolution of biotechnology clusters in Germany between 1996 and 2003, paying particular attention to their composition in terms of venture capital, basic science institutions, and biotechnology firms. Drawing upon the significance of co-location of quot;money and ideasquot;, the...

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Technology and Real Estate Brokerage Firm Financial Performance

Benjamin, John D. - 2014

This study investigates the impact of Internet usage on the financial performance of residential real estate brokerage firms using a database of over 1,700 observations. Factor loadings and a factor score for Internet usage are developed. The results show that Internet use is positively related...

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Innovation and the Determinants of Firm Survival

Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2014

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

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Does Public Scientific Research Complement Private Research and Development Investment in the Pharmaceutical Industry?

Toole, Andrew A. - 2014

This paper studies how pharmaceutical research and development (Ramp;D) investment responds to publicly supported biomedical research performed mainly in universities and non-profit institutions. New micro-level data on investment by the U.S. National Institutes of Health allow measures of...

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Conducting R&D in Countries with Weak Intellectual Property Rights Protection

Zhao, Minyuan - 2014

leads to low returns to innovation and underutilization of innovative talents; MNEs who possess alternative mechanisms for …

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Are Scientific Indicators of Patent Quality Useful to Investors?

Hirschey, Mark - 2014

Together with the number of patents and the value of Ramp;D expenditures, scientific measures of patent quality give investors a useful basis upon which to judge the economic merit of the firm's inventive and innovative activity. Especially in the case of small cap and relatively low P/E high...

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An Examination of the Investments in US Biotechnology Firms By Foreign and Domestic Corporate Partners

Coombs, Joseph E. - 2014

This study examines the characteristics that make start-up biotechnology firms attractive alliance partners. We distinguish between firm specific and location-specific characteristics as well as between foreign and domestic corporate partners. We present and test a longitudinal model of alliance...

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Innovation and Market Value

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014

This paper surveys recent findings about how the financial markets value the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms. The motivation for using market value equation to price knowledge assets is discussed and the theory behind this equation is briefly presented. Then the empirical literature...

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Expertise and Finance : Mergers Motivated by Technological Change

Ueda, Masako - 2014

This paper argues that a large technological innovation may lead to a merger wave by inducing entrepreneurs to seek … funds from technologically knowledgeable firms-experts. When a large technological innovation occurs, the ability of non …

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