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Long-Run Effects of Public-Private Research Joint Ventures : The Case of the Danish Innovation Consortia Support Scheme

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2011

-in-difference estimation methods. Our main findings are that (i) program participation effects are instant for annual patent applications and … that were patent active prior to joining the RJV and that there are no statistically significant effect for large firms …

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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms : A Regional Investigation

Iammarino, Simona - 2009

innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region …. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship … between cooperative linkages for innovation and the development of technological capabilities by business units. Firstly, the …

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Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation

Heshmati, Almas - 2013

manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 …' likelihood to participate in cooperation with other organizations when conducting innovation activities.These determinants are … translated into simulation parameters which are calibrated to the point that the simulated artificial world are equivalent to the …

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Political Connections, Business Groups and Innovation

Commander, Simon John; Estrin, Saul; Silva, Thamashi de - 2023

non-affiliates, this is unsurprising given their access to additional resources. However, when we look at innovation at … the country level, we find that the wider consequences of BGs on innovation may be negative …

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Not so Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany

Eichhorst, Werner - 2014

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labour market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labour market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labour...

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Incidence of Strict Quality Standards : Protection of Consumers or Windfall for Professionals?

Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2013

This paper examines the effects of upgrading product quality standards on product and professional labor-market equilibriums when both markets are regulated. The Japanese government revised the Building Standards Act in June 2007, requiring a stricter review process for admitting the plans of...

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Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection

Sessions, John G. - 2015

By relaxing the common efficiency wage assumption of exogenous shirking detection probabilities, we demonstrate how standards and efficiency wages are related. In a more general setting where the probability of detection depends upon the equilibrium effort level of non-shirkers, we show that the...

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Time is on My Side : Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare

Kukharskyy, Bohdan - 2018

This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...

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Resource Allocation and Firm Scope

Friebel, Guido; Raith, Michael - 2021

We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with nonintegration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the underlying agency problem. Moreover, the benefits and costs...

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