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their inward looking or exploitationʺ attitude in R&D and innovation. We argue that because of sunk costs and learning …. Among other things, this suggests that explorationʺ, which leads to the opening of new innovation trajectories, requires not …
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This paper discusses, first, the properties of scientific and technological knowledge and the institutions supporting its generation and its economic applications. The evidence continues to support the broad interpretation which we call the ʺStanford-Yale-Sussexʺ synthesis. Second, such...
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It is widely believed that while society allows technology to be private property, scientific knowledge is public and open. However, over the past quarter-century there has been increasing patenting of quite basic scientific knowledge. This essay argues that this is potentially a very serious...
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In this paper, we present an evolutionary model of industry dynamics yielding endogenous business cycles with 'Keynesian' features. The model describes an economy composed of firms and consumers/workers. Firms belong to two industries. The first one performs R&D and produces heterogeneous...
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This work explores the spatial distribution of productive activities in the Italian manufacturing industry. We propose an econometric model which tries to disentangle locationspecific from sectoral drivers in the dynamic process of spatial agglomeration. The basic idea is that the former...
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This paper provides a description of the production process by comparing different frameworks in which to analyze the relations between inputs and output. The analyses are performed on a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We employ both parametric and non-parametric analysis....
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reported in this paper examined the relationship between product quality and innovation success. In contrast to existing … product innovation literature that focused on industrial goods, this study used food product data from a 2002 German food …
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power affects food manufacturing firms incentives to invest in innovation of high quality food products. On the basis of a … Germany. Results of multinomial logit model show a moderate and negative impact of retailer market power on innovation of … seem to more effectively resist retailer market power in product innovation. …
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Product innovation is a competitive strategy in food industry. Successful product development management is a key …-conduct-performance approach it can be argued that product innovation raises barriers to entry and thus improve profitability. This study examines …
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example in which more rational agents systematically perform worse than less rational ones. -- Innovation ; Endogenous Growth …
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