Showing 1 - 8 of 8
The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between competition and growth in a model of human capital accumulation and research by disentangling the monopolistic mark-up in the intermediate goods sector and the returns to specialization in order to have a better measure of competition....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787146
This article assesses the rate of obsolescence of patents with measurements of the rate in Japan. Our study departs from Parkes and Schankerman (1989) and Schankerman (1998) because of its application of the ordered probit model. The application of this model enables us to consider the case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836191
The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of a workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinitely time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259176
Das vorliegende Arbeitspapler fasst die Ergebnisse einer im Sommer 1988 durchgeführten schriftlichen Expertenbefragung zu den Bestimmunsfaktoren von Forschung und Entwicklung in der Schweizer Industrie zusammen. Von den 940 beragten Untemehmungen haben 358 Oder ca. 40% geantwortet; sie waren in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685027
The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of any workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinite time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729014
over the 1993-2003 period, firms with overconfident CEOs have greater return volatility, invest more in innovation, obtain …&D) expenditure. Overconfident managers only achieve greater innovation than non-overconfident managers in innovative industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560965
innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be used to overcome a time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005019435
We investigate the effect of quality of patents on the market value of firms represented by the Tobin's q. We consider the number of objections as well as the number of citations. We construct the database of patent stock, citation-weighted patent stock and objection-weighted patent stock. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623395