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Hall, Bronwyn H. - EconWPA - 1999

This paper surveys recent findings about how the financial markets value the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms. The motivation for using market value equation to price knowledge assets is discusssed and the theory behind this equation is briefly presented. Then the empirical literature...

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Adoption of New Technology

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Khan, Beethika - EconWPA - 2004

The contribution of new technology to economic growth can only be realized when and if the new technology is widely diffused and used. Diffusion itself results from a series of individual decisions to begin using the new technology, decisions which are often the result of a comparison of the...

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The Patent Paradox Revisited: Determinants of Patenting in the US Semiconductor Industry, 1980-94

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Ham, Rose Marie - EconWPA - 2000

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The Financing of Research and Development

Hall, Bronwyn H. - EconWPA - 2003

Evidence on the "funding gap" for R&D is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment in R&D that persist even in the absence of externality-induced underinvestment. The conclusions are that 1) small and new innovative firms experience high costs of capital that are...

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I Like the Way you Move - An Empirical Investigation into the Mechanisms Behind First Mover and Follower Strategies

Sofka, Wolfgang; Schmidt, Tobias - EconWPA - 2005

There appears to be an ambivalent dimension in innovation strategies: timing. When is an innovation ready for the … market or when is the market ready for the innovation? This paper empirically investigates the determinants of a firm …’s decision to become a first mover or a follower in innovation strategies. Much of theoretical and empirical work has focused on …

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Does Cash Flow Cause Investment and R&D: An Exploration Using Panel Data for French, Japanese, and United States Scientific Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques; Branstetter, Lee; … - EconWPA - 1999

, especially in the area of technological innovation and international competition has been hotly debated in the recent past. The …

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Barriers Inhibiting Industry from Partnering with Universities: Evidence from the Advanced Technology Program

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Link, Albert N.; Scott, John T. - EconWPA - 2001

A small sample of 38 Advanced Technology Projects funded between 1993 and 1996 are surveyed to explore the reasons for university non-participation, or, in the cases where they did participate, whether the partnerships encountered any difficulties from their participation. 32 percent report that...

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Global Idea Sourcing - An empirical investigation into the mechanisms behind the usage of foreign business sources for innovation

Sofka, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2005

for innovation at home. We suggest a combination of three factors to identify and explain such innovation strategies … customers as a source for innovation that is more beneficial to standardized products and becomes more feasible if the lead … regulation. Hence, companies optimize or augment their innovation activities by invoking ideas from foreign suppliers. Then again …

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