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Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012

R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The …

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The Effects of R&D Externalities in a Spatial Model

Häckner, Jonas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1990

This paper deals with the physical location of firms although other interpretations are also possible. It is a well-known fact that firms in certain industries tend to cluster. However, since you would expect competition to be more intense when goods are less diversified in a locational sense...

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Does FDI Work as a Channel for R&D Spillovers? Evidence Based on Swedish Data

Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina; Knarvik, Midelfart; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are important in transmitting technology across national borders. Not only do they allow for transfer of technology within the firm, but it is also believed that they are important channels for international R&D spillovers as well. This paper analyzes empirically...

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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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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …

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How and Why Does Knowledge Spill Over? The Case of Biotechnology

Audretsch, David B; Stephan, Paula E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper sheds light on the questions, Why does knowledge spill over? and How does knowledge spill over? The answer to these questions lies in the incentives confronting scientists to appropriate the expected value of their knowledge considered in the context of their path-dependent career...

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Coordinating R&D activities in multinational companies: towards new tools and practices?

Arzumanyan, Lusine; Mayrhofer, Ulrike; Melin, Christopher - HAL - 2011

Over the past few decades, scholars have shown a growing interest in the topic of innovation processes in multinational … internationalisation of the value-chain raises critical questions linked to the coordination of innovation processes. The objective of this … paper is twofold: (1) to contribute to a better understanding of coordination mechanisms of innovation processes in …

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We argue that firms...

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Entrepreneurship and Second-best Institutions: Going Beyond Baumol’s Typology

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

This paper reconsiders the predominant typology pioneered by Baumol (1990) between productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. Baumol’s classificatory scheme is built around a limited concept of first-best outcomes and therefore easily fails to appreciate the true impact of...

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Superentrepreneurship in Europe Compared to Other Industrialised Regions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

strong performance in technological innovation. …

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