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efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
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creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …
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We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …
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This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …
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The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a fundamental shift in Europe, along with the other OECD countries, is taking place. This shift is from the managed economy to the entrepreneurial economy. While politicians and policy-makers have made a plea for guidance in the era of...
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New Keynesian literature assumes symmetric industrial structure when analysing explanations of monetary non-neutrality. We analyse the impact of modifying this assumption by allowing for a mixed industrial structure; some industries are characterized by monopolistic competition, and others by...
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We use a North-South model with property right differences and resource dynamics to study the effects of trade on resource use and welfare. Autarky is likely to Pareto-dominate free trade in the long run when the environment is quite fragile, and the result is reversed when the environment is...
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The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...
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past, not in the future. The Internet fails as a Great Invention because much of its use involves substitution of existing … activities from one medium to another, because much Internet investment involves defence of market share rather than creation of … something of social value, because much Internet activity duplicates existing activity like mail order catalogues, while the …
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intermediation on the Internet by allowing registration and transaction prices, and multiple registration. When only registration …
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