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High Performance in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands

Kourtit, Karima; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …

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The Firms behind the Regions: Analysis of Regional Innovation Performance in Portugal by External Logistic Biplots

Noronha, Teresa de; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

The strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy in Portugal have, over the last two decades, produced various … firms located throughout the country, and to explore those innovation determinants that have a region-specific connotation …. In our paper, innovation is used as a major contributor to the policy evaluation process referred to above. To provide a …

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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...

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Evaluating the Capacity of Standard Investment Appraisal Methods

Akalu, Mehari Mekonnen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

The survey findings indicate the existence of gap between theory and practice of capital budgeting. Standard appraisal methods have shown a wider project value discrepancy, which is beyond and above the contingency limit. In addition, the research has found the growing trend in the use of value...

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A Monte Carlo Comparison between the Free Cash Flow and Discounted Cash Flow Approaches

Akalu, Mehari Mekonnen; Turner, Rodney - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

One of the debates in the capital budgeting model selection is between the free cash flow and DCF methods. In this paper an attempt is made to compare SVA against NPV model based on Monte Carlo simulations. Accordingly, NPV is found less sensitive to value driver variations and has got higher...

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Collusion through Joint R&D: An Empirical Assessment

Duso, Tomaso; Roeller, Lars-Hendrik; Seldeslachts, Jo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product market. We show that a sufficient condition for...

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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut

Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present paper it is shown that – when this variable is added...

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Cooperation in the Classroom: Experimenting with R&D Cooperatives

Goeree, Michelle Sovinsky; Hinloopen, Jeroen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This discussion paper resulted in the article Journal of Economic Education (2008), 39(4), 357-373. This paper describes a classroom experiment that illustrates the research and development investment incentives facing firms when technological spillovers are present. The game involves two stages...

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R&D Networks

Goyal, Sanjeev; Moraga, Jose Luis - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

We develop a model of strategic networks that captures two distinctive features of interfirm collaboration: bilateral agreements and nonexclusive relationships. Our analysis highlights the relationship between market competition, firms' incentives to invest in R&D, and the architecture of...

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