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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: Evidence from the auto industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - 2012

innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2007

ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of … many techno organisational innovation and networking strategies, original recent survey data for manufacturing and services … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …

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Unbundling technology adoption and tfp at the firm level: Do intangibles matter?

Battisti, Michele; Belloc, Filippo; Del Gatto, Massimo - 2012

We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity conflating the two effects. To this aim, we estimate...

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The effects of privatization on R&D investments and patent productivity

Munari, Federico; Sobrero, Maurizio - 2002

Over the last two decades privatization programs in different countries radically reduced the role of the State as a key player in the economic arena. We use agency theory to discuss the theoretical relationship between changes in the firm's principal-agent structure following privatization, and...

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Environmentally-oriented innovative strategies and firm performances in services: Micro-evidence from Italy

Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2007

with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …

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Leadership cycles

Denicolò, Vincenzo; Zanchettin, Piercarlo - 2010

cases policy should favour R&D by incumbents, not outsiders, and that stronger patent protection may reduce innovation and …

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Innovation and institutional ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - 2010

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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Migration, cultural diversity and innovation: A European perspective

Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … diversity consistently increases the innovation performance of European Countries. …

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Cost-reducing R&D in the presence of an appropriation alternative: An application to the natural resource curse

Martin Puzon, Klarizze Anne - 2013

This study proposes a new mechanism for the resource curse: crowding-out of innovation due to the existence of an … increase in resources decreases innovation in the formal sector, both income and welfare still go up. Meanwhile, for …

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The Unilateral Implementation of a Sustainable Growth Path with Directed Technical Change

van den Bijgaart, Inge - 2015

technical change framework. Unilateral policies alter the structure of production and thereby innovation incentives across … countries. Whenever feasible, optimal policies implement sustainable growth by directing global innovation to the nonpolluting … sector. If nonparticipants drive global innovation, this requires policies relocating clean production to nonparticipants. A …

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