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Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … innovation activities. Using data from the Community Innovation Survey on Belgian manufacturing firms, we show that firms that …
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from two Dutch Community Innovation Surveys in 1996 and 1998. Applying a system method estimator for probit equations shows … across cooperation types. As suggested by industrial organization theory of R&D cooperation, the effects of spillovers depend …
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In this Paper we provide empirical evidence that Antidumping (AD) Protection can induce technological catching-up by domestic firms affected by the import protection. We identify a panel of 1,793 import-competing domestic firms between 1993 and 2000, directly affected by AD cases that were...
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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The paper contributes to the debate on cumulative advantage effects in academic research by examining top performance in research and its persistence over time, using a panel dataset comprising the publications of biomedical and exact scientists at the KU Leuven in the period 1992-2001. We study...
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information for the innovation process of the firm. Appropriability is defined as the effectiveness of several protection …
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We develop a North-South model of reciprocal antidumping (AD). We find that AD wars are winnable for the Northern firm if the Southern market is sufficiently small relative to the North’s. The South can avert AD war with the North by expanding the home market size. It may however trigger AD...
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We analyze the relationship between firm-level innovation activities and firms’ propensity to start exporting for firms … in a small open economy. We measure innovation by innovative effort (R&D) as well as by innovative output (product and … process innovation). After carefully correcting for endogeneity and selection issues, the evidence points to firms self …
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This study investigates the effects of an R&D subsidy scheme on participating firms’ net R&D investment. Making use of a specific policy design in Belgium that explicitly distinguishes between research and development grants, we estimate direct and cross-scheme effects on research versus...
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international generation of knowledge for the case of Belgium, using indicators based on EPO and USPTO patent data (1978-2001). We … affiliates abroad. This approach allows improvement of existing indicators of internationalization of technology based on patent … Belgian patent applicants. But the share of foreign inventors to Belgian assigned patents is increasing considerably over time …
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