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investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …
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innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual … to the adoption of alternative measures of innovation performance (Intangible Assets). It certainly merits further …
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This paper investigates the relationship between the innovative activity of the top corporate R&D investors worldwide and their valuation on the financial markets. The empirical analysis is based on a sample of more than 1,500 top publicly listed Multinational Corporations (MNCs) performing a...
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For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is...
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identification of a firm's minimum size, a threshold needed to formally protect an innovation by legal means. Below this minimum size …
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This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and …
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The objective of the paper is to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of … emphasis will be put on developing countries in which innovation, skills and technological absorptive capacities tend to be … some concepts and definitions on technology, innovation, and the channels of technology diffusion. In a second part, we use …
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China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity, however, did not lead to strong productivity growth. The delinking of patenting activity from productivity growth could be explained by quality and relevance issues. Although the...
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