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A Supply Side Story for a Threshold Model: Endogenous Growth of the Free and Open Source Community

Rullani, Francesco; Zirulia, Lorenzo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

: Science and Technology. This paper examines a recent institutional form that seems not to resemble either of the other two … technology. Using free and open source software as an example, we develop a model where this phenomenon is confronted with … Technology with respect to its ability to attract researchers. …

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Services Innovation and Economic Performance An analysis at the firm level

Lopes, Luísa Ferreira; Godinho, Manuel Mira - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

We present a model that links innovation effort to economic performance, along the lines of the Crépon et al (1998) model. However, in contrast to Crépon et al, that analyze R&D intensive manufacturing sectors, the present application examines the relationship between innovation and...

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The University in the Learning Economy

Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002

In all parts of the world, universities are exposed to a growing pressure to change. This is caused by the emergence of … universities are identified. One important conclusion is that traditional modes of organisation, characterised by sharp and rigid …. Another conclusion is that strategies of alliance and networking have become a key factor behind the success of universities …

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European Productivity Gaps Is R&D the Solution?

Meister, Christoph; Verspagen, Bart - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

This paper investigates the potential impact of increased business R&D efforts in Europe on the total factor productivity gap between European and U.S. industry. The paper addresses Europe’s ambition, expressed at the 2000 Lisbon Summit to become “the most competitive and dynamic...

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Distance to Frontier and Appropriate Business Strategy

Coad, Alex - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm’s distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...

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Inventors and the Geographical Breadth of Knowledge Soillovers

Giuri, Paola; Mariani, Myriam - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

This paper studies the geographical breadth of knowledge spillovers. Previous research suggests that knowledge spillovers benefit from geographical proximity in technologically active and rich regions more than elsewhere. An alternative view explains the geographical breadth of knowledge...

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Innovation, Learning Organizations and Industrial Relations

Nielsen, Peter; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003

Innovation may be seen as a process of knowledge creation and the speed and direction of knowledge creation reflects the organizational set-up of the firm as well as its investments in R&D and training. Establishing ‘a learning organization’ where horizontal interaction and communication...

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Manufacturing Agrarian Change - Agricultural production, inter-sectoral learning and technological capabilities

Andreoni, Antonio - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

The aim of this paper is to investigate how industrial development, manufacturing in particular, has been contributing to agrarian change. In order to address this issue, it analyzes the technical bases and structural specificities – i.e. time and scale constraints – of agricultural...

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Not All Scientists pay to be Scientists:

Sauermann, Henry; Roach, Michael - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

A growing body of research on firms’ “open science” strategies rests on the notion that scientists have a strong preference for publishing and that firms are able to extract a wage discount if they allow scientists to publish. Drawing on a survey of 1,400 life scientists about to enter the...

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Debt Financing of High-growth Startups

Fischer, Timo; Rassenfosse, Gaétan de - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

We study the business model of venture debt firms, specialized institutions that provide loans to high-growth startups. Venture debt represents an apparent contradiction with traditional debt theory since startups have negative cash flows and lack tangible assets to secure the loan. Yet, we...

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