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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 …
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The August 15th 2013 Shanghai Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) should leave policy makers wondering about whether the impressive growth experienced by 'latecomers in the industry' has moved hand-in-hand with contribution to knowledge by means of scientific publications. Against...
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use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …
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Public agencies provide subsidies for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) to foster their development in terms of employment and sales. Although input and output additionality have been researched intensively little is known about the actual long-term effects of subsidies on SME growth....
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This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …
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refocus the debate and analyses the economic issues, impacts and implications of the innovation clusters policy. To do this … cooperation. We assume that innovation cluster "potentiates", by a synergistic action, the beneficial effect of each of these …
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We construct an asymmetri c duopolistic R&D and production behavior model subject to knowledge spillovers. This model is an extension to the symmetric model of d'Aspremont and Jacquemin (A&J (1988)) and aims to determine the cooperative and non-cooperative R&D strategies for two agents of...
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We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …
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