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R&D and Productivity in German Manufacturing Firms
Harhoff, Dietmar - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 6 (1998) 1, pp. 29-50
This papcr uses a new firm panel data set to explore the relationship between R&D and productivity in German manufacturing firms for the period from 1979 to 1989. The results confirm the view that K&D is an important determinant of productivity growth. In the cross-section, the elasticity of...
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High Performance in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands
Kourtit, Karima; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …
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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144510
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Innovation And Job Creation In A Smallopen Economy-Evidence From Norwegian Manufacturing Plants 1982-92
Klette, Jakob; Førre, Svein Erik - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 5 (1998) 2-4, pp. 247-272
relationship between job creation and innovation, as measured by R&D investments, in Norwegian manufacturing. We compare job …
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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Optimal patent policy with endogenous cross-border acquisitions
Roy, Abhra; Bagchi, Aniruddha - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 20 (2011) 3, pp. 259-282
The issue of optimal patent protection is of great importance since the inclusion of the trade related aspects of intellectual property rights accord into the purview of the World Trade Organization. Hitherto, the literature has focused on the optimal patent regimes from the perspective of...
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Swarming Mechanics
Justman, Moshe - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 4 (1996) 3, pp. 235-244
This paper sets out some microfoundations for Schumpeter' s theory of innovation-driven business cycles. A model is … developed to represent these cycles, which incorporates two of the three main elements of Schumpeter's analysis: innovation and …
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The Dynamics Of Localized Technological Changes. The Interaction Between Factor Costs Inducement, Demand Pull And Schumpeterian Rivalry
Antonelli, Crlstlano - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 6 (1998) 2-3, pp. 97-120
Localized technological change is the endogenous outcome of the interplay between substitution costs. Switching costs and learning processes. New technologies are introduced when market pressures induce firms to change the levels of their inputs and their techniques. The dynamics ol localized...
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Service-sector competition, innovation and R&D
Tingvall, Patrik Gustavsson; Karpaty, Patrik - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 20 (2011) 1, pp. 63-88
innovation and competition. The model is built on the assumption of a product market and has not yet been tested on the service … for exporting service-sector firms. A further breakdown of innovation expenditures shows that the inverse U-shaped pattern … competitors. The behavior of large firms can partly be due to their superior capacity to handle innovation projects internally …
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