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Learning for Employment, Innovating for Growth
Falkinger, Josef; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning …
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Venture Capital, Patenting, and Usefulness of Innovations
Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We analyze incentives to develop entrepreneurial ideas for venture capitalists (VCs) and incumbent firms. If VCs are sufficiently better at judging an idea's value and if it is sufficiently more costly to patent low than high value ideas, VCs acquire valuable ideas, develop them beyond the level...
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Profit Taxation, Innovation and the Financing of Heterogeneous Firms
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
endogenous share opts for innovation and faces credit constraints in the subsequent expansion phase. We emphasize four results …: (i) R&D subsidies not only encourage innovation but also relax finance constraints and help innovative firms to exploit … investment of constrained firms by reducing free cash-flow and thereby discourage innovation. (iii) A revenue neutral increase in …
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization
Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more pro-entrepreneurial policies....
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Offshoring and Product Innovation
Naghavi, Alireza; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123630
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Patents in a Model of Endogenous Growth
O'Donoghue, Edward; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is two-fold. First, we show how the patent policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role of patents has been largely ignored. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136433
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Optimal Public Policy for Venture Capital Backed Innovation
Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
regard to the capital gains tax, innovation subsidy, public R&D spending and other policy initiatives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497714
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Contract Enforcement, Comparative Advantage and Long-Run Growth
Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
-country dynamic Ricardian model with endogenous innovation and hold-up problems, the value chain consists of two activities …, innovation and production. Entry in the market happens through R&D and entrants face two decisions. The 'location decision … perform innovation and production within the same vertically integrated structure or not. In this framework, the quality of …
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Innovation, Trade, and Finance
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …
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