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A Duopoly Experiment on Cooperative and Noncooperative R&D
Suetens, Sigrid - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003
In this paper an experimental environment to test theoretical predictions concerning R&D behavior of firms in duopoly with allowance for R&D spillovers is created. The design and hypotheses of the experiment are based on the well-known model of d Aspremont and Jacquemin in which R&D behavior of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092197
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Vested Interests and Resistance to Technology Adoption
Canton, E.J.F.; de Groot, H.L.F.; Nahuis, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999
Employed technologies differ vastly across countries. Within countries many technologies that would obviously improve firms’ efficiency are not adopted. This paper explains these observations by emphasizing that a new technology positively affects workers by lowering prices and increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091275
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Competition and Innovation : Pushing Productivity Up or Down?
Brouwer, Erik; van der Wiel, H.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between competition, innovation and productivity for the Netherlands. We use … innovation data from Community Innovation Survey with accounting data to link innovative activities with performance at the … through more innovation. Nonetheless, there exists an inverted U- curve between competition and innovation for the Netherlands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090737