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R&D and Productivity in Danish Firms: Some Empirical Evidence.

Smith, Valdemar; Dilling-Hansen, Mogens; Eriksson, Tor; … - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2000

The aim of the paper is to examine the relationship between R&D capital and productivity using micro data for Danish manufacturing firms. We account for the influence of factors such as ownership, innovative characteristics and source of funding. The return to accumulated R&D capital is...

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Leveraging Resistance to Change and the Skunk Works Model of Innovation

Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2005

We study a situation in which an R&D department promotes the introduction of an innovation that results in costly re … implementing the so-called skunk works model of innovation where the R&D department is isolated from the rest of the organization …

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Resting on Laurels: A Theory of Inertia in Organizations.

Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2003

We present a model where the employees of a firm have to search for profitable business projects in a changing environment. Employees who have found a successful project in the past period are shown to be reluctant to search for new and better projects leading to corporate inertia. This reduces...

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Competition Policy and Innovation

Møllgaard, Peter; Lorentzen, Jo - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2005

We briefly review the rationale behind technological alliances and provide a snapshot of their role in global competition, especially insofar as it is based around intellectual capital. They nicely illustrate the increased importance of horizontal agreements and thus establish the relevance of...

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The Nature of Innovation Market Failure and the Design of Public Support for Private Innovation

Martin, Stephen; Scott, John T. - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 1999

We relate the sources of innovation market failure to the dominant mode of sectoral innovation and outline mechanisms … for public support of innovation that target specific sources of innovation market failure. …

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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Grimpe, Christoph; Kaiser, Ulrich - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2008

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper … findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience and openness to external knowledge sources motivate the …

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Product market competition policy and technological performance

Martin, Stephen - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 1998

Stricter competition policy reduces expected payoffs before and after innovation, but reduces pre-innovation payoffs … relatively more than post-innovation payoffs, and therefore increases the equilibrium level of R&D activity: tough product …-market competition policy stimulates innovation. There is an inverted-U relationship between competition policy and expected welfare. The …

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