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factors which may condition economic growth, such as innovation, migration, and the local 'social filter', taking also into … account the geographical component of intervention in transport infrastructure and innovation. The results of the two … filter', good innovation capacity, both in the region and in neighbouring areas, and a region's capacity to attract migrants …
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Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical … literature by combining in one model R&D, spillovers, and innovation systems approaches. A multiple regression analysis is …
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This paper contains an empirical analysis demand for “work-group” (or low-end) servers. Servers are at the centre of many US and EU anti-trust debates, including the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger and investigations into the activities of Microsoft. One question in these policy decisions is...
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In this paper we investigate the evolution of quality adjusted prices for servers motivated by two facts. First, the productivity acceleration in the US economy since the mid 1990s is closely linked to spread of information technology of which networked computing is a large component. Second,...
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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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Government policies to support R&D are predicated on empirical evidence of R&D "spillovers" between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a general...
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The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a...
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Support for many R&D and technology policies relies on empirical evidence that R&D ‘spills over’ between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126438