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Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods

Besley, Timothy J.; Ghatak, Maitreesh - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

There has been a dramatic change in the division of responsibility between the state and the private sector for the delivery of public goods and services in recent years with an increasing trend towards contracting out to the private sector and ‘public-private partnerships’. This Paper...

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Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering

Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

A government agency wants a facility to be built and managed to provide a public service. Two different modes of provision are considered. In a public-private partnership, the tasks of building and managing are bundled, while under traditional procurement, these tasks are delegated to separate...

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Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: An experimental investigation

Hoppe, Eva I; Kusterer, David J; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

A government agency wants an infrastructure-based public service to be provided. Our experimental study compares two different modes of provision. In a public-private partnership, the two tasks of building the infrastructure and operating it are delegated to one private contractor (a...

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The Missing Link: The Knowledge Filter and Entrepreneurship in Endogenous Growth

Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does not explain how or why spillovers occur. The missing link...

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To What Extent Should Less-Developed Countries Enforce Intellectual Property?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

countries (LDCs). It starts by discussing the consequences of IP enforcement in LDCs for global innovation and welfare in poorer …

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Strategic Experimentation and Disruptive Technological Change

Schivardi, Fabiano; Schneider, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper studies the diffusion of a new technology that is brought to market while its potential is still uncertain. We consider a dynamic game in which firms improve both a new and a rival old technology while learning about the relative potential of both technologies. We use the model to...

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How Licensing Resolves Hold-Up: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Data Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity

Siebert, Ralph; von Graevenitz, Georg - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper is a study of licensing in a patent thicket. In a patent thicket licensing allows firms to avoid hold-up. It will have different effects on firms' R&D incentives depending on whether firms license existing or future patents. Building on a model of a patent portfolio race, firms'...

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Royalty Stacking in High Tech Industries: Separating Myth from Reality

Geradin, Damien; Layne-Farrar, Anna; Padilla, Atilano Jorge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

A few recent contributions have claimed that in high-tech industries—where innovation is often cumulative and products … royalty stacking problem to exist: (a) innovation must be cumulative, so that the patents are complementary; (b) there must be …

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Unions and Innovation: A Survey of the Theory and Empirical Evidence

Menezes-Filho, Naercio; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper surveys the economic literature on the impact of trade unions on innovation. There are many theoretical … routes through which unions may have an effect on innovation, for example through their effects on relative factor prices …&D, innovation, technological diffusion and productivity growth. North American results find consistently strong and negative impacts …

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Trade Secret Laws, Labour Mobility and Innovations

Motta, Massimo; Rønde, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution to innovation is crucial, a covenant …

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