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Radical or incremental: Where does R&D policy hit?

Beck, Mathias; Lopes-Bento, Cindy; Schenker-Wicki, Andrea - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest …: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental innovation) or on innovation that is still far from the market and … market failure is highest, that is, for radical innovation. Taking into account that the Swiss funding agency encourages …

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Small Firms and R&D Spillovers: Evidence from Italy

Audretsch, David B; Vivarelli, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …

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When local interaction does not suffice: Sources of firm innovation in urban Norway

Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The geographical sources of innovation of firms have been hotly debated. While the traditional view is that physical … survey of the level of innovation of 1604 firms of more than 10 employees located in the five largest Norwegian city … innovation and b) the factors behind the propensity to innovate in Norwegian firms. The results stress that while interaction …

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The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest less in current R&D as uncertainty about market...

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Search, Concave Production, and Optimal Firm Size

Smith, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper presents a simple search and bargaining economy in which firms use concave production. Because a firm and worker negotiate over the worker's marginal productivity, the firm's wage is a function of its labour force. Reacting to this wage function, firms choose an excessively large and...

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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?

Harhoff, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to cash flow for relatively small firms. Much of this...

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Small Scale Reservation Laws and the Misallocation of Talent

García-Santana, Manuel; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In this paper we quantify the effects of the Small Scale Reservation Laws in India on the aggregate productivity, aggregate output and welfare of the Indian economy. To this end, we extend the span-of-control model by Lucas (1978) into a multi-sector setting and embed it into the neo-classical...

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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth

Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers' attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...

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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France

Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees....

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Sub-Optimal Scale Firms and Compensating Factor Differentials in Dutch Manufacturing

Audretsch, David B; Thurik, A R Roy; Van Leeuwen, Geroge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on why so many smaller-scale firms which have traditionally been classified as sub-optimal scale firms can exist. We suggest that by pursuing a strategy of compensating factor differentials, that is by remunerating and deploying factors of...

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