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Atallah, Gamal - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

This paper proposes a model where firms invest in secrecy to limit technological spillovers accruing to their competitors, in addition to investing in cost-reducing R&D. The main result of the paper is that increases in spillovers increase secrecy, suggesting that legal and strategic protection...

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Innovative Efforts as Determinants of Export Performance: The Case of Specialized Suppliers

Bourgault, Mario; Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

This paper presents empirical evidence on the relationship between innovative efforts and performance on international markets for the specific case of small firms acting as specialized suppliers. In addition to tangible efforts such as R&D expenditures, intangible efforts are also considered....

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Intangible Capabilities as Determinants of Advanced Manufacturing Technology Adoption in SMEs: Toward an Evolutionary Model

Harvey, Jean; Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1994

This paper investigates the relationship between intangible capabilities and further AMT adoption in 116 small manufacturing firms. Results indicate that skills of blue-collar workers, influences of customers and vendors, and motivations focussed on process improvement and customers are the...

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Do Canadian Firms Respond to Fiscal Incentives to Research and Development?

Dagenais, Marcel; Mohnen, Pierre; Therrien, Pierre - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1997

This study examines the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives using an unbalanced panel of 434 Canadian firms. Not all firms in the sample are R&D performers. A B-index summarizing the various tax incentives for R&D is constructed for each firm, taking into account individual ceilings in the use...

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The Allocation of Resources to Cooperative and Noncooperative R&D

Atallah, Gamal - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

The precompetitive R&D literature has viewed cooperative and noncooperative R&D as substitutes. In this paper a more realistic approach is taken, where both cooperative and noncooperative R&D are performed in parallel. In the first stage firms determine the optimal investments in both types of...

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The Connection between Wall Street and Main Street: Measurement and Implications for Monetary Policy

Barattieri, Alessandro; Eden, Maya; Stevanovic, Dalibor - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2013

We propose a measure of the extent to which a financial sector is connected to the real economy. The Measure of Connectedness is the share of credit market instruments represented by claims whose direct counterpart belongs to the non-financial sectors. The aggregate U.S. Measure of Connectedness...

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Information Sharing and the Stability of Cooperation in Research Joint Ventures

Atallah, Gamal - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2000

The model studies information sharing and the stability of cooperation in cost reducing Research Joint Ventures (RJVs). In a three-stage game-theoretic framework, firms decide on participation in a RJV, information sharing along with R&D expenditures, and output. An important feature of the...

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Measuring the Effectiveness of R&D tax credits in the Netherlands

Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2007

This paper examines the impact of the Dutch R&D fiscal incentive program, known as WBSO, on R&D capital formation …. Taking a factor-demand approach we measure the elasticity of firm R&D capital accumulation to its user cost. An econometric …-Bas, connu sous le nom de WBSO, sur la formation du capital de recherche. À partir d'une approche de demande de facteurs de …

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Integrating Environmental Issues Into Corporate Strategy: A Catalyst for Radical Organizational Innovation

Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A.; Roy, Marie Josée - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

This paper presents the results of a study conducted in manufacturing firms operating in the electrical and electronic sectors in Quebec. It investigates the extent to which environmental concerns are integrated into corporate strategy and the entire product development stages. Special attention...

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Relating HRM and MOT Capabilities to R&D Intensity

Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A.; Préfontaine, Lise - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1994

R&D activities cannot be dissociated from the broader organizational capabilities developed by a firm. These capabilities may take the form of human resource management capabilities (HRM) or management of technology capabilities (MOT). In a study conducted in 126 manufacturing firms in the...

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