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Socio-technical transition pathways and social networks: a toolkit for empirical innovation studies

Morone, Piergiuseppe; Lopolito, Antonio - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 4, pp. 2720-2731

In this note we investigate socio-technical transition pathways concentrating our attention on innovation niches … formations. Specifically, we present a methodological conceptualization of innovation-niches and propose a preliminary protocol … of innovation-niches propose in this paper. Although preliminary, we believe this study represents an important step in a …

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Effect Of Firm Innovation On Labour Force Csomposition: The Case Of Italian Manufacturing

Nardis, Sergio De; Ventura, Marco - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 338-353

This paper investigates the causal relationship between innovation and labour force reallocation within the firm … inter-firms and sectors reallocations, innovation activity can be effective in hampering immigration flows from lagging … flow of graduated people took place the innovation process was not effective in increasing the requirement of high …

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Innovation and Growth in the Grossman-Helpman's 1991 Model with Increasing Returns.

Guarini, Giulio - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 147-155

In this paper I consider the 1991 Grossman-Helpman model which analyses the role of innovation on growth. The model …-Helpman model unchanged, I analyse the influence of the rate of innovation on three variables: the rate of growth of final output …

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Process R&D in Monopoly under Demand Uncertainty

Lambertini, Luca - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2006) 14, pp. 1-9

I investigate R&D efforts for process innovation in a monopoly with uncertain demand. Two different models are proposed …

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R&D and firm growth rate variance

Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 702-708

Investment in R&D is positively associated with the variance of sales growth and, to a lesser extent, employment growth. The magnitude of this effect has not increased in recent decades, however.

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High-growth firms, innovation and the distance to the frontier

Hölzl, Werner; Friesenbichler, Klaus - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 2, pp. 1016-1024

This paper studies the differences in the R&D and innovation behaviour of high-growth firms for 16 EU countries. The … results confirm that R&D and innovation are important characteristics for high-growth firms in countries close to the …

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Process R&D in Monopoly under Demand Uncertainty

Lambertini, Luca - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2006) 14, pp. 1-9

I investigate R&D efforts for process innovation in a monopoly with uncertain demand. Two different models are proposed …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005110638

Exports and firm profitability: Quality matters!

Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1644-1652

This paper uses a tailor-made newly available data set to investigate for the first time the links between profitability and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. The paper demonstrates that...

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German multiple-product, multiple-destination exporters: Bernard-Redding-Schott under test

Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1708-1714

Export is dominated by enterprises that trade more than one good with customers in more than one destination country. Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, is a case in point. Theoretical models of multiple-product, multiple-destination exporters that can guide...

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Productivity and the product scope of multi-product firms: a test of Feenstra-Ma

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 415-419

Feenstra and Ma (2008) develop a monopolistic competition model where firms choose their optimal product scope by balancing the profits from a new variety against the costs of “cannibalizing” sales of existing varieties. While more productive firms always have a higher market share, there is...

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