This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with … intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge … endogenous absorptive capacity. The networks emerge as a result of bilateral cooperation over time between firms occupying …

Earlier studies have shown that entrepreneurs play a key role in shaping regional development. Innovator networks where … paper intents to go one step further and analyses in how far differing characteristics of these networks lead to different …

learning process of individuals with different preference types (more and less pro-social) and coarse information regarding the …

This paper focuses on foreign language learning as human capital investment or consumption. We apply the human capital … investment framework to foreign language learning and enlarge it by adding consumption motives. Based on a novel dataset … the different motives for language learning and of the expected use of language skills in the labour market. We highlight …

establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm’s total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when … we consider only generalized training and innovation. Finally, no significant relation is found between training …

literature. We discuss if lock-ins are really inescapable, especially when innovation is concerned. Also, we address the question …

In the past decades the role of profit sharing schemes (PSS) as a way to foster innovation in a principal-agent context …, and more generally of innovation in economic growth, have been widely acknowledged and studied. However, surprisingly … innovation in a pure knowledge economy: a "patent box" incentive and a tax incentive on compensation earned by agents as PSS. A …