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Motivation and sorting in open source software innovation

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed …

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Innovation in business groups

Belenzon, Sharon; Berkovitz, Tomer - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. We find … that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate innovation. Group affiliation is particularly important in … industries that rely more on external finance and have a higher degree of information asymmetry. We also find that the innovation …

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Who bore the burden of wage arrears in the Kyrgyz republic?

Namazie, Ceema Zahra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Despite large falls in output in the FSU, rather than firing workers, workers were subjected to long spells of unpaid leave or non-payment of wages (wage arrears). Wage arrears is a significant problem in the countries of the FSU, particularly in light of price liberalization on most goods and...

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The effect of unobservables on labour supply decisions: the formal and informal sector during transition

Namazie, Ceema Zahra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

The transition from a command economy in the FSU resulted in increased activities in the informal sector. However despite prevalent delays in wage payments many workers were still observed to be working full-time in the formal sector. Here a model of workers' labour supply decisions incorporates...

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Why labour hoarding may be rational: a model of firm behaviour during transition

Namazie, Ceema Zahra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

In the Former Soviet Union, the early 1990s were characterized by large falls in GDP and small changes to already low unemployment. The slow adjustment to unemployment was a result of employers using various means to maintain employment levels, including; extended periods of unpaid leave,...

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The impact of private ownership, incentives and local development objectives on university technology transfer performance

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We study the impact of private ownership, incentive pay and local development objectives on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for 1995-99. We...

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Basic research and sequential innovation

Belenzon, Sharon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The commercial value of basic knowledge depends on the arrival of follow-up developments mostly from outside the boundaries of the inventing firm. Private returns would depend on the extent the inventing firm internalizes these follow-up developments. Such internalization is less likely to occur...

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Harnessing success: determinants of university technology licensing performance

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We study the impact of incentive pay, local development objectives and government constraints on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for...

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Knowledge flow and sequential innovation: implications for technology diffusion, r&d and market value

Belenzon, Sharon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

It is shown that spillovers can enhance private returns to innovation if they feed back into the dynamic research of …” knowledge is reabsorbed by its inventor. A simple model of sequential innovation with dynamic spillovers is developed, which …

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