Similar Search Results

Audretsch, David B; Falck, Oliver; Feldman, Maryann P; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

routinized phase where innovation takes place within top-performing incumbents; (3) a second entrepreneurial phase characterized … routinization, in which no further innovation takes place, but is instead a phase of structural change. Using data on 74 West German …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124213

The Impact of R&D Subsidies on the Introduction of New Products by Incumbent Firms

Siebert, Ralph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper analyses the impact of R&D subsidies on incumbent firms to introduce new goods. We are especially interested in investigating various consequences of government subsidies for R&D, provided to firms that offer products of different qualities. This study examines the incentives of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504784

Endogenous Innovation Spillovers and Technology Policy

Katsoulacos, Yannis; Ulph, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

We examine a model of R&D competition and cooperation in the presence of spillovers. Unlike virtually all the literature, however, we treat these spillovers as endogenous and under the control of firms. We show that it is then essential to make a number of distinctions that are ignored in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136627

Complementarity, Growth and Trade

Honkapohja, Seppo; Turunen-Red, Arja - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We consider an endogenous growth model that includes international trade in capital goods. The model yields several distinct balanced growth solutions that can be classified using stability under adaptive learning. Some of the equilibria can involve growth rates much higher (or lower) than...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067638

The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Exit of venture-backed firms often takes place through sales to large incumbent firms. We show that in such an environment, venture-backed firms have a stronger incentive to develop basic innovations into commercialized innovations than incumbent firms, due to strategic product market effects....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791605

Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We argue that firms...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497759

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

entrepreneurship as a mechanism that reduces the knowledge filter. A cross-country regression analysis over the period 1981 … entrepreneurship may be an important new approach to promoting economic growth. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504210

Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more pro-entrepreneurial policies....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530366

Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008865973

And the Winner Is--Acquired: Entrepreneurship as a Contest with Acquisition as the Prize

Henkel, Joachim; Rønde, Thomas; Wagner, Marcus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

paper, we analyze a two-stage innovation game between one incumbent and a large number of entrants. In the first stage … innovation. In the second stage, successful entrants bid to be acquired by the incumbent. We assume that entrants cannot survive …&D approaches than the incumbent and are more likely to generate the highest value innovation. Thus, the need of entrants to be …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784763