This survey paper discusses the links between (1) research done by Amartya K. Sen on the social rate of discount and (2) behavioural economics studies on intertemporal and interpersonal choice. Sen's idea on the need to differentiate social rate of discount allowed to pave the way further...

The aim of this article is to investigate the impacts of cooperative and non-cooperative R&D strategies on product innovation and firm performance. Based on the industrial economics literature and the optimisation model, R&D competition, R&D cartelisation, and full industry cartelisation...

We investigate factors that determine product innovation in network industries. We develop a demand-pull-technology-push model of enterprise innovation and find that enterprise innovation depends on firm's specific abilities to extend the network, consumer preferences over product price and...

The goal of this paper is to present a formal model of firm innovation that simultaneously analyzes innovation factors characteristic to the Schumpeterian strand of industrial organization literature and the know-how strand. Corporate R&D intensity serves here as an input measure of firm...

The purpose of this chapter is to assess the change tendencies in human resources in Poland as a factor of economic competitiveness in the period 2010-2016. Human resources constitute an important factor of international competitiveness of the national economy. Productivity of human resources...

We hypothesize that introduction of imagine-self perspective-taking by decision-makers promotes Nash choices in a simple experimental normal-form game. In particular, we examined behavior of 404 undergraduate students in the experimental game, in which row player can suffer a monetary loss only...

We study gender differences in preferences for mate characteristics such as perceived physical attractiveness and intelligence using data from a speed dating experiment. We have observed that women give greater weight to perceived physical attractiveness than intelligence in their mating...

The following item briefly presents and discusses the role of creators and innovation in the Schumpeterian economic development. The special emphasis is put on three actors in the Schumpeterian system - inventors, entrepreneurs and capitalists. Also, the further Schumpeter's theory of innovation...