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such applications, a key role is played by complementarities in the process of innovation. …
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innovation drive income expansion. Funke and Strulik [2000]. On endogenous growth with physical capital, human capital and … phases, characterized in a temporal order by physical capital accumulation, human capital formation, and innovation, and that … development are possible and show that the model can generate a trajectory in which innovation precedes human capital formation …
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effect that domestic innovation and technology diffusion have in explaining differences in productivity across countries and … domestic innovation than lower-income countries, whereas lower-income countries benefit more from technology diffusion; and (ii … innovation and technology diffusion are endogenous sources of comparative advantage …
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literature. We discuss if lock-ins are really inescapable, especially when innovation is concerned. Also, we address the question …
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discovery and in the diffusion of a technological principle and their profit flow depends on how many firms adopt the innovation …
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We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and...
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We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existingliterature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses the model of quality improvements todescribe...
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This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
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increase in the share of government purchases in high-tech industries increases the rewards for innovation, and stimulates … findings bring public procurement within the realm of the innovation policy debate. …
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This paper applies the Directed Technical Change (DTC) framework to study improvements in the efficiency of energy use. We present a theoretical model which (1) shows that the demand for energy is shifted down by innovations in energy intensive sectors and (2) highlights the drivers of...
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