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Complementarity between technology make and buy in innovation strategies: Evidence from Belgiam manufacturing firms

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998

This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …

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Competitive Advantages of the Beira Interior (Portugal): A TOWS Approach

Ferreira, Joao; Leitao, Joao; Raposo, Mario - EconWPA - 2005

The formulation of a competitive strategy implies an extended understanding, in terms of the industrial structures, of the mains fields where the nations compete and those structures evolve. The environmental conditions of a region, and of its industries, determine both the generic strategies,...

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Public provision of a private good: What is the point of the BSD license?

Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005

Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it a private good, licensing it under the BSD does...

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VERTICAL R&D SPILLOVERS, COOPERATION, MARKET STRUCTURE, AND INNOVATION

Atallah, Gamal - EconWPA - 2000

are taken into account. The paper proposes a theory of innovation and market structure, showing that the relation between … innovation and competition depends on horizontal spillovers, vertical spillovers, and cooperative settings. The private …

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005

process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany … CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The econometric analysis …

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Aggregate consequences of limited contract enforceability

Cooley, Thomas; Marimon, Ramon; Quadrini, Vicenzo - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

We study a general equilibrium model in which entrepreneurs finance investment with optimal financial contracts. Because of enforceability problems, contracts are constrained efficient. We show that limited enforceability amplifies the impact of technological innovations on aggregate output....

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Entrepreneurial risk, investment and innovation

Caggese, Andrea - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

innovation is stronger for the less diversified entrepreneurial firms, and is stronger in the absence of financing frictions in …

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Technological Specialization and Convergence of Small Countries: The Case of the Late-industrializing Asian NIEs

Wong, Poh-Kam; Singh, Annette - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the changing pattern of technological specialization of the four small, newly industrializing economies (NIEs) from East Asia as they move up the economic development ladder. In addition, the paper also investigates whether there is convergence or divergence between these...

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The Porter Hypothesis Revisited: A Literature Review of Theoretical Models and Empirical Tests

Wagner, Marcus - EconWPA - 2004

The debate on the relationship between environmental regulation and competitiveness has been a topic of discussion for a number of years now. As early as 1991, the American economist Michael E. Porter proposed that stringent environmental regulation (under the condition that it is efficient) can...

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Networks of Innovation Clusters in Cova da Beira (Portugal)

Leitao, Joao; Osorio, Carlos - EconWPA - 2005

functioning which accomplishes the general purposes of the National Integrated Programme to the Support for Innovation, and …

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