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between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 …
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Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
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The aim of this paper is to explore the concepts of eco-design and eco-innovation in the context of smart cities. In … period 2005-2015. Our results are threefold: first, there is a predominant use of the eco-design compared to the eco-innovation …
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Firms frequently employ various strategies that make products obsolete after a relatively short time or limited usage (“product obsolescence”). Early product obsolescence harms consumers, undermines market efficiency, and increases the waste the throw-away economy generates. While instances...
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Deadlines are common in product development and are often felt to be too harsh - many development efforts are still worth continuing at the time of mandated termination. We examine the value of deadlines from the agency-theoretic perspective. We consider a firm that pays an agent to lead product...
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The paper studies the relevance of product heterogeneity for innovation dynamics using an agent-based model. The … vantage point is a short a review on the empirical relevance of capability accumulation for innovation processes and an … insights on product innovation in macroeconomic models, a simple agent-based model, which may later serve as an innovation …
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