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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...

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Italian Firms in History: Size, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Amatori, Franco; Bugamelli, Matteo; Colli, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2011

The economic performance of a country depends, among other things, on the strategies and structures of its firms. In the framework that is designed by institutions and policies and determined by technology and macroeconomic cycles, entrepreneurs decide how to allocate available resources in...

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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …

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Knowledge Spillovers and Economic Growth

Stel, André van; Nieuwenhuijsen, Henry - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not … this controversy using a model of regional growth. The model also deals with the impact of local competition on innovation …

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Pharmaceutical Research Strategies

Phlippen, Sandra; Vermeersch, An - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This study analyses 1400 research projects of the top 20 R&D-spending pharmaceuticals to identify the determinants of successful research projects. We provide clear evidence that externally sourced projects and projects involving biotechnologies perform better than internal projects and chemical...

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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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Innovation, Industry Evoluation and Employment

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, A. Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a series of articles on the links between innovation, the evolution of … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by Cambridge University Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … been the former, while the continental Europeans have chosen the latter. The purpose the thirteen articles of Innovation …

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Unionization Structure, Licensing and Innovation

Mukherjee, Arijit; Pennings, Enrico - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

, We show that, in presence of licensing, the incentive for innovation may also be stronger under decentralized unions …

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Differential Impact of Environmental Policy Instruments on Technological Change: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …

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Maintenance Costs, Obsolescence, and Endogenous Growth

Berden, Koen G.; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costs in the endogenous growth model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existing literature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses the model of quality improvements to describe...

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