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Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Bruno, Amable - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....

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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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The Determinants of Corporate Growth

Rosique, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth...

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Legal Institutions, Innovation and Growth

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development — periods when legal …

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Technology, Growth and Trade: Schumpeterian Perspectives

Fagerberg, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988

uses the Schumpeterian model of innovation-diffusion as a framework for the study of "why growth rates differ" between …. Chapter 4, which focuses on the relation between innovation-diffusion, structural changes in world trade and export … material to discuss the implications of innovation-diffusion for changes in specialization patterns/intra-industry trade. The …

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Geographic Localization of International Technology Diffusion

Keller, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local in a large class of models. This Paper estimates the amount of spillovers from R&D expenditures in major industrialized countries on a geographic basis. A new data set is...

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Productivity Growth and the Structure of the Business Cycle

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Over recent years `opportunity cost' (OC) models of growth have been constructed which suggest that firms take advantage of the possibility of intertemporal subsitution in order to engage in productivity-improving activities during recessions. This paper tests whether this argument is correct,...

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An endogenous growth model with quality ladders and consumers’ heterogeneity

Marasco, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This paper develops an endogenous growth model with quality ladders where consumers heterogeneity is assumed and is modelled through non homothetic preferences. We show that in such a model, unlike mainstream quality ladders models, the steady state equilibrium is characterised by a duopoly were...

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Switching from Patents to an Intertemporal Bounty in a Non-Scale Growth Model: Transitional Dynamics and Welfare Evaluation

Lin, Hwan C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of a workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinitely time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …

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