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The Social Dimension of the Learning Economy

Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996

This paper is a slightly revised version of Bengt-Åke Lundvall's Inaugural Lecture, the 10th of November at Department for Business Studies, Aalborg University. The general message is that the growing frequency of so-called paradoxes in economic theory and of unsolved socioeconomic problems...

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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2008

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R&D spillovers as well as remainder,...

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Corporate Taxation and the Quality of Research and Development

Ernst, Christof; Richter, Katharina; Riedel, Nadine - CESifo - 2013

attracting innovative projects with a high earnings potential and innovation level. The effect is statistically significant and …

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A Matter of Location: The Role of Regional Social Capital in Overcoming the Liability of Newness in R&D Acquisition Activities

Laursen, Keld; Masciarelli, Francesca; Reichstein, Toke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2010

External knowledge acquisition represents a precondition for firms’ competitive advantage. However, young firms find it particularly difficult to gain access to external sources of knowledge: young firms suffer from a liability of newness by exhibiting significantly lower propensities to...

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Dynamics of Open Source Movements

Athey, Susan; Ellison, Glenn - CESifo - 2010

This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of quality, contributing programmers, and users who contribute customer support to other users. Programmers who have used open source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to...

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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - CESifo - 2014

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...

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The Unexplored Effect of Skills and Technology on Firms' Performance

Sedita, Silvia Rita - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004

The aim of this paper is to add new findings to the knowledge based view of the firm, where the cross-learning ability of individuals and organizations plays a fundamental role in the determination of firms' superior performances. Collective, non formal - informal, formal types of learning...

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Commercializing Cohen-Boyer 1980-1997

Feldman, Maryann; Colaianni, Alessandra; Liu, Kang - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

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Strategic Approaches to CO2 Emissions - The Case of the Cement Industry and of the Chemical Industry

Arjaliès, Diane Laure; Goubet, Cécile; Ponssard, … - CESifo - 2014

The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...

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How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?

Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2013

that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …

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