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innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed …
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Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. We find … that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate innovation. Group affiliation is particularly important in … industries that rely more on external finance and have a higher degree of information asymmetry. We also find that the innovation …
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The commercial value of basic knowledge depends on the arrival of follow-up developments mostly from outside the boundaries of the inventing firm. Private returns would depend on the extent the inventing firm internalizes these follow-up developments. Such internalization is less likely to occur...
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