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Innovation is a collective process that entails the coordination of distributed knowledge across diverse organizations …. Technology infrastructures provide innovation systems with governance mechanisms to create and sustain complementarities across … otherwise dispersed competences. The paper presents innovation platforms as a specific case of technology infrastructure …
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This paper examines the effect of control rights over whether to publish or patent research results. University researchers have substantial discretion over disclosure, while management in non-academic organizations often direct researchers to patent their findings. Thus, the effect of control...
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We examine the market power of a seller who repeatedly offers upgraded versions of a product. In the case of pure monopoly, the seller also controls compatibility across versions. In the case of an entrant who offers an upgrade, the incumbent seller also controls subsequent interoperability...
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Numerous attempts have been made to account for cross-industries differences in technological efforts; most of them have been accomplished along the lines of the structure-conduct-performance hypothesis. It is our purpose to reverse such an approach in the light of the latest theoretical and...
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relationship between job creation and innovation, as measured by R&D investments, in Norwegian manufacturing. We compare job …
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, turnover growth is positively associated with firms' size, process innovation, product innovation and organisational changes …. In contrast, marketing innovation does not considerably affect Italian SMEs growth. When restricting our focus to a sub …, among innovative firms, process innovation and organisational changes are, by far, the most influential innovating …
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This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies and productivity and productivity growth rates. We use data from the 1993 and 1988 Survey of Manufacturing Technology (SMT) to examine the use of advanced (computer based) technologies at two different points in time....
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Recent studies of capital-skill complementarity suffer from several important empirical limitations and a theoretical framework that treats technological change as exogenous. This paper addresses some of these limitations using a new, detailed firm-level dataset on technology usage and labor...
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This paper aims to add evidence on the role played by firms' technological competencies in the determination of their intensity of cooperation with other firms. Using a database composed by patents jointly filcd by two or more firms in the European Patent Office, the paper confronts the...
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We show for a widely-used class of models for strategic R&D that optimally subsidizing cooperative R&D or noncooperative R&D leads to the same level of private R&D investments. We then highlight the limitations of the framework that are responsible for this finding and conclude that policy...
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