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Developments in the Organization and Finance of PublicAgricultural Research in the United States, 1988-1999

Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

This paper describes major external changes to the U.S. public agricultural researchsystem over 1988-1999; describes the reactions of the public agricultural research system to theexternal changes, specifying the innovations that have occurred over the last decade; and drawsconclusions about the present...

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Statistical Moments Analysis of Production and Welfare in Multi-Product Cournot Oligopoly

Lapan, Harvey E.; Hennessy, David A. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2007

Our context involves Cournot oligopolists producing NM products at constant marginal costs when preferences are quasi-linear. We identify relationships between second moments of unit costs and second moments of firm-level production. For example, a larger variance in unit costs of a product...

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Detrimental toInnovation?

Crampes, Claude; Langinier, Corinne - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

showthat one unique set of legal rules can foster innovation and increase total R&D expendituresin some industries and be …

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Welfare Effects of Intellectual Property Rights UnderAsymmetric Spillovers

Kim, Jeong Eon; Lapan, Harvey E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

, efficiency considerations imply that, given policies resulting inthe same overall innovation rate, it would be better to have …

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INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR AND SPATIALLOCATION – USING PATENT COUNTS ANDGEOGRAPHIC LOCATION TO ESTIMATEINNOVATIVE SPILLINS

Miranowski, John A.; Monchuk, Daniel C. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

In this paper we examine the relation between geographic location and innovative behavior.Knowledge spillins, as … opposed to knowledge spillovers, are modeled as an externality which existsbetween geographically close economic agents and …

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Using patents to mislead rivals

Langinier, Corinne - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

innovation. Yet, firms do patent, as indicated by the largenumber of patents that are granted. This paper offers a possible … resolution to this puzzle.It takes a simplified version of a duopoly innovation race, and studies the patenting decisionof an … innovator who has private information about the improvability of her innovation.In this setting, it is shown that a firm may use …

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Segmented Asset Markets and Optimal ExchangeRate Regimes

Singh, Rajesh Kumar; Lahiri, Amartya; Végh, Carlos A. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

This paper revisits the issue of the optimal exchange rate regime in a flexible price environment. The key innovation …

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Persönlichkeiten – Innovatoren

Technische Universität <Chemnitz> / Lehrstuhl Personal … - 2009

Frank McNamara gilt als Urheber der ersten allgemein verbreiteten Kreditkarte ab 1950und ist gemeinsam mit Ralph Schneider Gründer des Diners Club. Die ursprüngliche AbsichtMcNamaras war die Etablierung einer Wertkarte, die in vielen Restaurants der Stadt NewYork akzeptiert wird. Anfänglich...

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Das Gründerpanel des IfM Bonn

Kranzusch, Peter; Kay, Rosemarie - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung <Bonn> - 2011

Erfolgreiche Gründungsunternehmen zwingen etablierte Unternehmen zu In-novationsanstrengungen und Effizienzsteigerungen, sei es durch neue Pro-dukte und Dienstleistungen oder Produktionsprozesse. Damit treiben sie den strukturellen Wandel voran und steigern die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer...

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Innovation, Employment and Skills inAdvanced and Developing Countries:A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative andqualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatorypower of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on theissue, with reference...

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