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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
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Technology in Growth
Keely, Louise; Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
We review the role of R&D in endogenous growth theory, and describe extant empirical research – macro and micro – bearing on R&D as an engine of growth. Taking R&D to be key, while recognizing the significance of economic incentives, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497933
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Trade Secret Laws, Labour Mobility and Innovations
Motta, Massimo; Rønde, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution to innovation is crucial, a covenant …
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Trade Policies and Development: Some New Issues
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
The 1980s have seen the beginnings of a change of heart among developing country policymakers, as the import-substitution consensus of the previous decade has all but evaporated. It is paradoxical that the 1980s should have become the decade of trade liberalization in LDCs, since this has also...
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Innovation in Cities: Science-Based Diversity, Specialization and Localized Competition
Audretsch, David B; Feldman, Maryann P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
effect of the composition of economic activity on innovation. We test whether the specialization of economic activity within … together complementary activities, better promotes innovation. The evidence provides considerable support for the diversity …
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Agglomeration and the Location of Innovative Activity
Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Only a few years ago the conventional wisdom predicted that globalization would render the demise of the region as a meaningful unit of economic analysis. Yet the obsession of policy-makers around the globe to 'create the next Silicon Valley' reveals the increased importance of geographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661735
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Financial Protectionism: the First Tests
Rose, Andrew K; Wieladek, Tomasz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom …-term interest rates, though our data set here is much smaller. We examine the loan mix for both British and foreign banks, both … of financial protectionism. After nationalisations, foreign banks reduced the fraction of loans going to the UK by about …
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To Be Financed or Not… - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Mueller, Elisabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
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High-Tech Clusters, Technology Spillovers and Trade Secret Laws
Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
simple model of cumulative innovation is presented where technology spillovers arise endogenously through labour mobility. It … to develop an innovation is neither very high nor very low. Trade secret protection based on punitive damages is, except …
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Banks versus Venture Capital
Ueda, Masako - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Why do some start-up firms raise funds from banks and others from venture capitalists? To answer this question, I study a model in which the venture capitalist can evaluate the entrepreneur’s project more accurately than the bank but can also threaten to steal it from the entrepreneur. The...
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