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R&D Productivity and the Organization of Cluster Policy: An Empirical Evaluation of the Industrial Cluster Project in Japan

Nishimura, Junichi; Okamuro, Hiroyuki - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2010

. This paper examines the effects of the “Industrial Cluster Project” (ICP) in Japan on the R&D productivity of participants …. However, cluster participants apply for more patents than others without reducing patent quality when they collaborate with …

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The contribution of academic research to innovation and growth

Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014

To better understand how academic research can contribute to innovative growth and to assess how Europe is and could be doing in this respect, we review the analysis and evidence of business science links and Europe's record on this. The evidence and analysis shows that the link between science...

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Technology platforms in Europe : an empirical investigation

De Propris, Lisa; Corradini, Carlo - 2013 - revised version

technological synthesis within the broader economy. Using data on patents and patent citations obtained from the PATSTAT …-CRIOS database, covering all patent applications made to the European Patent Office (EPO), we try to model the systemic nature of …

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The Importance of Innovation for Productivity

Rao, Someshwar; Ahmad, Ashfaq; Horsman, William; … - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 11-18

Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq Ahmad, William Horsman, and Phaedra Kaptein-Russell of Industry Canada provides support for this view by finding a strong positive relationship between measures of fundamental...

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Intellectual Property, Competition, and Science versus Technology

Scott, John T.; Scott, Troy Joseph - 2017

This paper models pre-invention-insight research effort and explores the proposition that competition among potential inventors, who can freely enter into the discovery process and who freely share their ideas without taking intellectual property as they strive to discover invention insights,...

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Taxes, innovation and productivity

Cloyne, James; Martinez, Joseba; Mumtaz, Haroon; … - 2024

Using a narrative identification of tax changes in the United States over the post-WWII period, we document that a temporary cut in corporate income tax rates leads to a long-lasting increase in innovation and productivity, whereas changes in personal income tax rates only have short-term...

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The Research Patent

Seymore, Sean B. - 2021

The patent system gives the courts discretion to tailor patentability standards flexibly across technologies to provide … practical, non-research-based use at the time patent protection is sought. The fear is that an early-stage patent on a research … innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in …

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Investing in Ontario's Infrastructure for Economic Growth and Prosperity

Haider, Murtaza; Crowley, David; DiFrancesco, Richard J. - 2013

This paper documents the potential employment and other value-added benefits of infrastructure investments in Ontario. In particular, it details the impact of infrastructure investment as a counter-cyclical fiscal policy tool. A review of the recent literature reveals that infrastructure...

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Does the Support of Innovative Clusters Sustainably Foster R&D Activity? Evidence from the German BioRegio and BioProfile Contests

Engel, Dirk - 2013

In this paper, we evaluate the R&D enhancing effects of two large public grant schemes aiming at encouraging the performance of firms organized in clusters. These are Germany's well known BioRegio and BioProfile contests for which we compare the research performance of winning regions in...

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Sunk costs, extensive R&D subsidies and permanent inducement effects

Arqué-Castells, Pere; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

We study whether there is scope for using subsidies to smooth out barriers to R&D performance and expand the share of R&D firms in Spain. We consider a dynamic model with sunk entry costs in which firms’ optimal participation strategy is defined in terms of two subsidy thresholds that...

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