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This study investigates the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry from the 1960s to the mid 1990s. Various proxies for the rate of return of R&D (e.g. expected profit, sales and R&D productivity) as well as the availability of internal funding (proxied by past...
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, focusing on the relation between institutions and innovation practices and taking into account the diversity of actors …
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Much has been written about innovation cooperation. But little research has been done to explain national differences … thereof. Using macro and micro evidence from the fourth Community Innovation Survey, we econometrically investigate the extent … to which national framework conditions account for the propensity of firms to cooperate on innovation at home and abroad …
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It is widely accepted that firms in peripheral regions benefit to a lesser extent from local knowledge spillovers than firms located in agglomerations or industrial clusters. This paper investigates the extent to which innovative firms in peripheral regions compensate for the lack of access to...
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We use longitudinal, disease-level data to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical … expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … the number of drugs to treat a disease, not the number of drug classes. Pharmaceutical innovation also reduced hospital …
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We analyze the frequency and nature by which new firms are acquired by established businesses. Acquisitions are often considered to reflect a technology transfer process and to also constitute one way in which a “symbiosis” between new technology-based firms (NTBFs) and established...
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Arrangements to cooperate on innovation facilitate access to external sources of knowledge. Using panel data derived … from five waves of Community Innovation Survey in the Czech Republic, we examine whether firms engage in these arrangements … initiating cooperation on innovation therefore have the potential to induce durable changes in the innovative behaviour of firms. …
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This paper presents a dynamic model of a competitive R&D and production duopoly subject to knowledge spillovers. Two asymmetric firms operate for a limited period of time and dispose their knowledge capital in the end. Both firms and the social planner prefer the R&D-cooperative strategy over...
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We construct an asymmetri c duopolistic R&D and production behavior model subject to knowledge spillovers. This model is an extension to the symmetric model of d'Aspremont and Jacquemin (A&J (1988)) and aims to determine the cooperative and non-cooperative R&D strategies for two agents of...
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This study investigates the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry from the 1960s to the mid 1990s. Various proxies for the rate of return of R&D (e.g. expected profit, sales and R&D productivity) as well as the availability of internal funding (proxied by past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077278