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Traditional accounts of innovation have tended to neglect the need for change to take place at particular times and in … framework to look at dynamic impacts. We know that innovation happens particularly in cities and that productivity, which is … associated with innovation, is higher in cities. We present a modelling framework that characterises the city as an evolving …
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This paper aims at building bridges between evolutionary microeconomics and the structuralist theory of economic development, trying to combine both approaches in a systematic way. It is suggested that reducing the technology gap requires persistent supply side efforts for adapting and improving...
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advancement of our understanding of economic evolution, and the associated process of innovation. In particular, we discuss why it …
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The artificial units of an agent-based model can be played around to diffuse innovation and new ideas or act to …
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&D) strategies using Community Innovation Survey data on the Dutch manufacturing sector. The focus of the research is whether M …&A affect corporate innovation strategies, favouring in-house R&D and innovation expenses versus external technological sourcing …. The results show that M&A activities have a positive and significant impact on innovation investments by firms, and …
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This article aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test whether firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less likely to be innovative … Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic count data estimation models applying General …
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ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICT-intensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more...
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This study attempts to determine the extent to which new cancer drugs introduced during the last 40 years have prolonged the lives of Americans diagnosed with cancer. We use a difference-in-differences approach: we analyze the correlation across cancer sites (breast, prostate, lung, etc.)...
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The prominent role played by patents within the pharmaceutical domain is unquestionable. In this paper, we focus on a relatively neglected implication of patents: the effect of patent-induced information disclosure on the dynamics of R&D and market competition. The study builds upon the...
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This article analyses the determinants of research and development (R&D) and the role of innovation on labour … in promoting innovation in both manufacturing and service industries, and driving growth throughout the regional economy … very prone to carrying out R&D and they invest more in innovation projects. R&D expenditures, output innovation, investment …
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