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Horizontal R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Evidence from France
Vencatachellum, Désiré; Versaevel, Bruno - HAL - 2006
We use the French portion of the 2002 Community Innovation Survey to test how spillovers a®ect the likelihood that ¯rms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789373
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R&D Delegation in a Duopoly with Spillovers
Vencatachellum, Désiré; Versaevel, Bruno - HAL - 2006
There is evidence that competing firms delegate R&D to the same independent profit-maximizing laboratory. We draw on this stylized fact to construct a model where two firms in the same industry offer transfer payments in exchange of user-specific R&D services from a common laboratory. Inter-firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792152
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"Deep Pockets'', Collateral Assignments of Patents, and the Growth of Innovations
Amable, Bruno; Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten - HAL - 2006
This paper studies how the imperfect collateral assignments of patents contribute to "deep pockets'' savings of innovative firms facing random investment opportunities in research and development (R&D) and determine the growth of their innovations, using a version of the Kiyotaki and Moore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021740
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Prolific inventors and their mobility: scale, impact and significance. What the literature tells us and some hypotheses
Bas, Christian Le - HAL - 2007
In this paper we survey the literature dealing with the category of prolific inventor. We set out some elements regarding nature, scale, significance and impact of the mobility of this population of prolific inventors. In particular the paper suggests an analysis that measures the effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793587
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"Deep Pockets'', Collateral Assignments of Patents, and the Growth of Innovations
Amable, Bruno; Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten - HAL - 2006
This paper studies how the imperfect collateral assignments of patents contribute to "deep pockets'' savings of innovative firms facing random investment opportunities in research and development (R&D) and determine the growth of their innovations, using a version of the Kiyotaki and Moore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794903
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Collective Intelligence and Neutral Point of View: The Case of Wikipedia
Greenstein, Shane Mitchell; Zhu, Feng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We examine whether collective intelligence helps achieve a neutral point of view using data from a decade of Wikipedia's articles on US politics. Our null hypothesis builds on Linus' Law, often expressed as "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." Our findings are consistent with a narrow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951239
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Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and the Platform Paradox
Graham, Stuart J.H.; Simcoe, Timothy S.; Feldman, Maryann - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
firms rely on open standards to lower the fixed cost of innovation, these firms are also more likely to pursue an aggressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088781
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The Geography of Crowdfunding
Agrawal, Ajay K.; Goldfarb, Avi; Catalini, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Perhaps the most striking feature of "crowdfunding" is the broad geographic dispersion of investors in small, early-stage projects. This contrasts with existing theories that predict entrepreneurs and investors will be co-located due to distance-sensitive costs. We examine a crowdfunding setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855521
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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830012
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international trade on several types of innovation by domestic firms. Using … and innovation and show that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and international trade are also important … channels. There is no evidence for an inverted U relationship between innovation and foreign competition. The relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005064825