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Opening Up Military Innovation : Causal Effects of 'Bottom-Up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research
Howell, Sabrina T; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …
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Why Firms Form Research Joint Ventures: Theory and Evidence
Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Siebert, Ralph; Tombak, Mihkel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The literature on research joint ventures (RJVs) has emphasized internalizing spillovers and cost-sharing as motives for RJV formation. In this paper we develop two additional explanations: product market complementarities and firm heterogeneity. We analyse a model of RJVs with asymmetric firms...
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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789146
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Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science : Evidence from Evolutionary Biology
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014
We report a puzzling pair of facts concerning the organization of science. The concentration of research output is declining at the department level but increasing at the individual level. For example, in evolutionary biology, over the period 1980 to 2000, the fraction of citation-weighted...
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Agglomeration and the Location of Innovative Activity
Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Only a few years ago the conventional wisdom predicted that globalization would render the demise of the region as a meaningful unit of economic analysis. Yet the obsession of policy-makers around the globe to 'create the next Silicon Valley' reveals the increased importance of geographic...
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Innovation in Cities: Science-Based Diversity, Specialization and Localized Competition
Audretsch, David B; Feldman, Maryann P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
effect of the composition of economic activity on innovation. We test whether the specialization of economic activity within … together complementary activities, better promotes innovation. The evidence provides considerable support for the diversity …
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Social Capital, Innovation and Growth : Evidence from Europe
Akcomak, Semih; ter Weel, Bas - 2021
This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …
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Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – an Experimental Study
Grözinger, Nicola - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
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Distribution & Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade
Eaton, Jonathan - 2012
We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using a dynamic Ricardian model we examine the effects of faster international technology diffusion and lower trade barriers on the incentive to innovate. In the absence of any...
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