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A Variety-Expansion Model of Growth with External Habit Formation

Doi, Junko; Mino, Kazuo - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - 2006

This paper introduces external habit formation into one of the basic models of endogenous growth in which continuing expansion of product variety sustains long-term growth. We assume that households consume a range of final goods and they set a benchmark level of consumption for each good. The...

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Redistribution and occupational choice in a Schumpeterian growth model

Garcίa-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Wen, Jean-François - 2004

We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is … social insurance, thus encouraging innovation and accelerating growth. The general equilibrium effects of the reallocation of …

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Technologietransfer durch Unternehmensgründungen: Was man tun und realistischerweise erwarten kann

Fritsch, Michael - 2004

Die Gründung eines innovativen Unternehmens stellt eine Form der kommerziellen Verwer-tung von Wissen dar. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über Ausmaß von Gründungen in wis-sensintensiven bzw. innovativen Branchen und deren Entwicklung. Da die Gründung eines Unternehmens wesentlich durch...

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Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catchup

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …

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Standards, Innovation Incentives, and the Formation of Patent Pools

Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010

Technological standards give rise to a complements problem that affects pricing and innovation incentives of technology …

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Co-determination and innovation

Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009

This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...

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Technologietransfer durch Unternehmensgründungen: Was man tun und realistischerweise erwarten kann

Fritsch, Michael - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2004

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Chapter 25 Agent-based Models of Innovation and Technological Change

Dawid, Herbert - In: Handbook of computational economics : volume 2, …, (pp. 1235-1272). 2006

of innovation and technological change. It is argued that, on the one hand, several genuine properties of innovation … dealing with issues of innovation and technological change is given and the contribution of these studies is discussed …

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Chapter 18. General Purpose Technologies

Bresnahan, Timothy - 2010

This chapter selectively surveys the literature on general purpose technologies (GPTs), focusing on incentives and aggregate growth implications. The literature on classical GPTs (steam, electricity, computers) and on classical great economic transformations (industrial revolutions, the...

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Chapter 7. Property Rights and Invention

Rockett, Katharine - 2010

intellectual property right design. We derive conclusions in the simplest, one-time innovation, case then investigate how these … optimal procurement of innovation are considered. Finally, we sketch enforcement and competition policy issues. …

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