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The effect of credit guarantees on R&D investment of SMEs in Korea

Heshmati, Almas - 2013

Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their effects on firms R&D expenditures. The...

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Processos de obtenção de tecnologia militar

Albano do Amarante, José Carlos - 2013

This paper discusses different ways to obtain military technology, examining: the autonomous development; the cooperative development in international governmental level; the cooperative development in international business; and technology transfer. For that, the article presents the demand for...

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Financiamento público da pesquisa em recursos hídricos no Brasil : o fundo setorial CT-Hidro

Santos, Gesmar Rosa dos - 2012

research, development and technological innovation are addressed. The organizational system and emerging issues are also … companies and a consequent low focus on technological innovation. …

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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013

liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …

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Facing the experts : survey mode and expert elicitation

Baker, Erin; Bosetti, Valentina; Jenni, Karen E.; … - 2013

In this paper we compare the results of two different expert elicitation methods: in-person interviews and a self-administered web-based survey. Traditional expert elicitation has been done face to face, with an elicitor meeting with an expert for a few hours to several days, depending on the...

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Cooperating with external partners : the importance of diversity for innovation performance

Beck, Mathias; Schenker-Wicki, Andrea - 2013

governmental research institutions see increased innovation performance as compared to firms who cooperate with a less diverse … range of collaborators. This paper investigates how diversity in cooperation networks affects firms' innovation performance … of microdata from Swiss firms from four waves (1999, 2002, 2005, and 2008) of the Swiss innovation survey using panel …

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Technology agreements with heterogeneous countries

Hoel, Michael; Zeeuw, Aart de - 2014

For sufficiently low abatement costs many countries might undertake significant emission reductions even without any international agreement on emission reductions. We consider a situation where a coalition of countries does not cooperate on emission reductions but cooperates on the development...

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Business-government interaction in policy councils in Latin America : cheap talk, expensive exchanges, or collaborative learning?

Schneider, Ben Ross - 2010

While effective industrial policy requires close cooperation between government and business, there is little agreement on what makes that cooperation work best. This paper analyzes institutional arrangements for public-private cooperation and the character of private sector representation....

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The dynamics of research joint ventures : a panel data analysis

Duso, Tomaso; Pennings, Enrico; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2007

The aim of this paper is to test the determinants of Research Joint Ventures' (RJVs) group dynamics. We look at entry, exit and turbulence in RJVs that have been set up under the US National Cooperative Research Act, which allows for certain antitrust exemptions in order to stimulate firms to...

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Can’t buy me rights! : the contractual structure of asymmetrical inter-firm collaborations

Häussler, Carolin - 2006

The efficient allocation of control rights in inter-firm collaborations is a widely emphasized issue. In this paper, I empirically identify control rights and the allocation of these rights using a unique survey data set on collaborations between biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms. Fifteen...

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