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This paper examines the links between ownership, innovation and exporting in electronics firms in three late … industrializing East Asian countries (China, Thailand and the Philippines) drawing on recent developments in applied international … trade and innovation and learning. Technology-based approaches to trade offer a plausible explanation for firm …
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of socio-technical systems of production and innovation. Finally, it provides a perspective of generality and scope, an … concepts in the context of the functioning of socio-technical systems of production and innovation. Then as a closure raises …) and the complex systems evolutionary economics (EE) to address issues related to innovation processes, technological …
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arguable made the transition to an entrepreneurial economy in which innovation, creativity and high value added in early stage … the opening up of large, populous developing countries such as India, China, and Brazil. Our model predictions are very …
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that influence innovation by firms and their subsequent growth. Using a dataset from a survey of nearly 4,000 firms in 24 … transition countries, we find evidence of the importance of a minimum of rivalry in both innovation and growth: the presence of … market power in product markets are utilised to undertake innovation. …
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Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....
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In a patent thicket licensing provides a mechanism to either avoid or resolve hold-up. Firms' R&D incentives will differ depending on how licensing is used. In this paper we study the choice between ex ante licensing to avoid hold-up and ex post licensing to resolve it. Building on a theoretical...
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We analyze the rise and demise of Lucent Technologies from the time that it was spun off from AT&T in April 1996 to its merger with Alcatel in December 2006. The analysis, contained in the three sections that form the body of this paper, considers three questions concerning Lucent’s...
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In a patent thicket licensing provides a mechanism to either avoid or resolve hold up. We study the choice between ex ante licensing to avoid hold up and ex post licensing to resolve it. Firms’ choice of licensing contract is studied in the context of a patent portfolio race. We show that high...
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Licensing in a patent thicket allows firms to either avoid or resolve hold-up. Firms' R&D incentives depend on whether they license ex ante or ex post. We develop a model of a patent portfolio race, which allows for endogenous R&D efforts, to study firms' choice between ex ante and ex post...
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knowledge is thus not a simple obligation but a factor of progress, innovation and adaptation to the change thus of …
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