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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181434
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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown
Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010
We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583733
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Incentives and Creativity in Groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing
Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670799
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Timing of Technology Adoption and Product Market Competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
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Evolution of Globalised business R&D: Features, drivers, impacts
Moncada-Paterno-Castello, Pietro; Voigt, Peter; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2011
The globalisation of R&D activities has continued to grow as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has brought researchers and analysts to...
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The 2011 Report on R&D in ICT in the European Union.
Turlea, Geomina; Nepelski, Daniel; Prato, Giuditta De; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2011
This report provides an analysis of the state of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Research and Development activities in the European Union. This is the fourth report of a series which is published annually. This year’s report provides data up to 2008. The report starts with a...
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Key Findings and Implications of the European ICT Poles of Excellence Project
Nepelski, Daniel; Prato, Giuditta de - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
aims to help map the dynamics of ICT-related innovation and economic geography in Europe, pointing to the presence and …. Together they participate in a networked ecosystem made up of very strong hubs in the global ICT innovation system and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169806
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Mapping the European ICT Poles of Excellence: The Atlas of ICT Acitvity in Europe
Prato, Giuditta de; Nepelski, Daniel - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
The EIPE project aims to identify ICT R&D&I-related activities which are geographically concentrated and which demonstrate high performance in ICT innovative activities: the European ICT Poles of Excellence. This is the third EIPE Report and it presents the results of an empirical mapping of ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169862
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Identifying European Poles of Excellence: The Methodology
Nepelski, Daniel; Prato, Giuditta de - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
dynamics of ICT-related innovation and economic geography in Europe, pointing to the presence and possibly the emergence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169898