The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....

In this paper, a model of product innovation is developed that endogenizes the degree of cooperation. Two opposing forces affect firm profit in an R&D joint venture. Cooperation increases the quality of the product but it also makes the new products more similar. The increasing substitutability...

Das AMS Österreich ist mit seiner Abt. Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation hierzulande eine der wichtigsten Institutionen, die sich in enger Kooperation mit Ministerien, den Sozialpartnern sowie den einschlägig tätigen Forschungsinstituten mit den vielfältigen Aspekten rund um die...

Im Zuge des zunehmenden interregionalen Wettbewerbs wird den Hochschulen als Wissensquelle für die Innovationstätigkeit der regionalen Wirtschaft eine immer größere Bedeutung beigemessen. Für die Regionen sind die Hochschulen dabei insbesondere deshalb zum Wettbewerbsparameter geworden, als...

We study a structural model of R&D alliance networks in which firms jointly form R&D collaborations to lower their production costs while competing on the product market. We derive the Nash equilibrium of this game, provide a welfare analysis and determine the optimal R&D subsidy program that...

Academic consulting is an important mechanism to transfer tacit knowledge as well as facilitates the transfer of codified knowledge, such as patents. However, not all researchers are equally interested in consulting. A lot of researchers refrain from industry collaboration since external...

The US decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the recent outcomes of the Bonn and Marrakech Conferences of the Parties drastically reduce the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in controlling GHG emissions. The reason is not only the reduced emission abatement in the US, but also the...

This study explicitly takes into account that the decision to enter into a cooperative R&D relationship is related to the antecedent decision to carry out R&D. This calls for a methodological approach that, at the same time, allows the joint analysis of the determinants of the two decisions and...