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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) rather than redistributive transfers. On the one hand, such a … distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262329
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Management of knowledge workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283985
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) rather than redistributive transfers. On the one hand, such a … distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762372
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Management of Knowledge Workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757344
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Innovative firms or innovative owners? Determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2009
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330094
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822994
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Bidding for brains: Intellectual property rights and the international migration of knowledge workers
McAusland, Carol; Kuhn, Peter - 2010
countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash … equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from a global welfare perspective. These incentives become stronger as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269771
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262337
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Banks and innovation: microeconometric evidence on Italian firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - 2006
set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267494
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The catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs
Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007
innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …
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