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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown
Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010
We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
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Incentives and Creativity in Groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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DELPHI: O Futuro da Moda de Santa Catarina ? Previsões entre 2008 e 2012
Locks, Eliza Bianchini Dallanhol; Martignago, Graciella; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2009
Este artigo apresenta o resultado da pesquisa sobre ?O Futuro da Moda em Santa Catarina?. Os resultados apresentados correspondem a uma pesquisa DELPHI realizada com especialistas do setor, compostos por empresários e acadêmicos. O objetivo fundamental foi o de identificar o cenário...
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When the innovator fails to capture rents from innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013
innovation, the business and social ties connecting firms deepen the hazards associated to the appropriation of rents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011140921
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Impact of the types of clusters on the innovation output and the appropriation of rents from innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013
The ability to generate innovations and capture the rents from innovation are important for firms’ competitive … innovation output, the knowledge flows among the clustered firms and, ultimately, on who captures the rents from innovation. The … rents from innovation. Extant research has noted that the social and business networks binding firms in clusters are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011140922
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Communities, Knowledge, and Innovation: Indian Immigrants in the US Semiconductor Industry
Almeida, Paul; Phene, Anupama; Li, Sali - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2010
This paper investigates the influence of technological, geographic, and ethnic communities on the innovativeness of Indian inventors. We study Indian inventors in the semiconductor industry in the US and examine their patenting profiles between 1975 and 1999 to identify the influences on the...
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Open and closed industry clusters: The social structure of innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando A. Ribeiro - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2008
In this paper we discuss knowledge and innovation in clusters and the benefits of clustering from a knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005736309
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Organizational paths of commercializing patented inventions: The effects of transaction costs, firm capabilities, and collaborative ties
Jung, Taehyun; Walsh, John P. - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2011
This study examines the factors affecting modes of commercializing patented inventions using a novel dataset based on a survey of U.S. inventors. We find that technological uncertainty and possessing complementary assets raise the propensity for internal commercialization. We find that R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919572
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User-producer interaction and the degree of novelty of innovations: a global perspective
Harirchi, Gouya; Chaminade, Cristina - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
User-producer interactions have been traditionally recognized as important for innovation. With the rapid growth of … than a south-north one, at least in terms of collaboration with customers for innovation. …
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