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Although the econometric evaluation of R&D has attracted wide interest in many countries, it has not attracted much in the UK. The main objective of this paper is to fill this void, i.e., to estimate the impact of R&D on productivity growth of the UK manufacturing sector. However, there are some...
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The research and development manager allocates R&D funds to maximize the expected discounted net value of the R&D programme. Because public R&D managers do not have the same market discipline (or rewards) as private R&D managers, public R&D managers require a methodology for maximizing the...
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The impact of technological change upon gross investment has been relatively ignored. Building upon the foundations of the analysis of technological diffusion, an empirical model of gross investment is constructed that takes due account of technological change. This model is then tested upon a...
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of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples …
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This article proposes three ideal business models to analyze innovation in knowledge-intensive goods and services. The … innovation, e.g. creation of novelty and of economic value. Defining the models this way leads to a discussion of the advantages …
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have the development of the Systems of Innovation Approach as a common objective. This multidisciplinary approach proposes … conceptual problems shedding new light on the evolutionary theory. This convergence between the Systems of Innovation Approach … and evolutionary concepts is organized around a complex conception of the innovation process. In this context, innovation …
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The aim of the article is to relate the formation of influence networks to the coexistence of technologies in the long run. In the spirit of Plouraboue et al. (1998), we postulate that potential adopters of a technology are situated in a social network. In our model, initial relations are partly...
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This paper presents characteristics of firms that employ advanced manufacturing technology (AMT), explores the pattern of adoption of such technology, and traces the effects of adoption on the evolution of employment and productivity. The study uses linked firm-level data on production, factor...
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Patterned innovation dynamics - investment-mix shifts and inter-organizational alliances -are examined for their roles … telecom equipment suppliers. Comparative analyses suggest that such innovation investment strategies have been of less benefit … to telecom firms than to producers in nearly any other major manufacturing sector. Trends in organizational innovation in …
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This paper reviews recent empirical studies of location and innovation. The objective is to highlight the questions … separate strains in thc empirical spillover literature: innovation production functions; the linkages between patent citations …
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