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Patents as Quality Signals? The Implications for Financing Constraints on R&D

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2015

Information about the success of a new technology is usually held asymmetrically between the research and development (R&D)-performing firm and potential lenders and investors. This raises the cost of capital for financing R&D externally, resulting in financing constraints on R&D especially for...

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What Do Technology Shocks Do?

Shea, John - 2010

The real business cycle literature has largely ignored the empirical question of what role technology shocks actually play in business cycles. The observed procyclicality of total factor productivity (TFP) does not prove that technology shocks are important to business cycles, since demand...

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The Impact of Emerging Market Competition on Innovation and Business Strategy

Küng, Lorenz - 2016

Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports … between 1999 and 2005. On average, process innovation declines more strongly than product innovation. In addition, initially …

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Technology and Resilience

Comin, Diego; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da; Cirera, X.; … - 2022

stages of the pandemic. We exploit a unique data covering firms from Brazil, Senegal, and Vietnam using a treatment effect …

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Using Innovations Surveys for Econometric Analysis

Mairesse, Jacques - 2010

After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of … have been made of these data: the construction of scoreboards for monitoring innovation and the scholarly analysis of … various issue related to innovation. In particular we review the questions examined and the results obtained regarding the …

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The Financing of R&D and Innovation

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

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Innovation and Productivity Across Four European Countries

Griffith, Rachel - 2007

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between Ramp;D expenditure, innovation output and …

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption...

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University-Industry Spillovers, Government Funding, and Industrial Consulting

Jensen, Richard - 2015

This paper presents a theoretical model of faculty consulting in the context of government and industry funding for research within the university, which then frames an empirical analysis of the funding and consulting of 458 individual faculty inventors from 8 major US universities. In the...

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The Allocation of Publicly-Funded Biomedical Research

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021

We develop a simple theoretical model of the allocation of public biomedical research expenditure, and present some empirical evidence about the determinants of this allocation. The structure of expenditure should depend on the relative costs as well as the relative benefits of different kinds...

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