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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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Adverse effects of patent pooling on product development and commercialization
Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Zhang, Nanyun - 2013
role of the effect of pooling on downstream innovation. The focus of this paper is on downstream product development and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311968
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Agglomeration and innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - 2014
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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How and why does the efficiency of regional innovation systems differ?
Fritsch, Michael - 2002
in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains … in the efficiency of innovation activities can be found. This variation is in correspondence with a center … differences in efficiency of regional innovation systems can be explained by differences in R&D-cooperation behavior. …
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Dynamic incentives in organizations: Success and inertia
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - 2010
We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302621
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398011
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Designing dynamic research contests
Benkert, Jean-Michel; Letina, Igor - 2019 - Revised version
This paper studies the optimal design of dynamic research contests. We introduce interim transfers, which are paid in every period while the contest is ongoing, to an otherwise standard setting. We show that a contest where: (i) the principal can stop the contest in any period, (ii) a constant...
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Opening up military innovation: causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517156
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Flipping journals to open : rethinking publishing infrastructure
Fecher, Benedikt; Wagner, Gert G. - 2015
about open access must include a discussion about research infrastructure and innovation in academic publishing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411236
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Adverse Effects of Patent Pooling on Product Development and Commercialization
Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Zhang, Nanyun - 2012
The conventional antitrust wisdom is that the formation of patent pools is welfare en- hancing when patents are complementary, since the pool avoids a double-marginalization problem associated with independent licensing. The focus of this paper is on (down- stream) product development and...
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