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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs - Empirical Evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - 2013

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … the likelihood of having both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on …

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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013

explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R … include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We …

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Technology entry in the presence of patent thickets

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Helmers, Christian; Graevenitz, Georg von - 2016

We analyze the effect of patent thickets on entry into technology areas by firms in the UK. We present a model that describes incentives to enter technology areas characterized by varying technological opportunity, complexity of technology, and the potential for hold‐up in patent thickets. We...

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Patents as quality signals? : the implications for financing constraints on R&D

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014

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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