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This paper investigates the causes of the shortfall in private R&D expenditure of the EU compared to the US. It shows that differences in the structure of the two economies play only a minor role in explaining the R&D gap. Instead, the European R&D shortfall is mainly caused by a negative...
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issues will be cross classified with J23; those focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship will be cross classified with O31 … the questions this review covers the intersection of entrepreneurship with labor markets, innovation and capital …
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This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We … develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving in-novation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous … innovation sizes. Government de-mand in high-tech industries increases the market size in these industries and, with it, the in …
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The aim of this paper is to test whether patent-based indicators are still reliable measures of innovativeness in light of organizational changes in the field of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and the regulatory reforms already under way respectively at the U.S. Patent and...
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innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …
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-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand …
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This policy paper on science-industry technology transfer has four emphases: the rationale of recent changes in German science policy, the contribution of diverse transfer channels to economic development as well as the role of IPR in that context, the differences in the institutional framework...
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innovation. However, we do not find a general positive association between collaboration, particularly with biotechnology … companies, and product innovation or between central network positions and product innovation. Therefore, these results require …
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Recent empirical contributions emphasize the importance of (potential) market size for the development of new pharmaceuticals. At the same time many scholars point out the importance of of scientific advances for the industry's R&D activities. Against this background I analyze the relationship...
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