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Public provision of a private good: What is the point of the BSD license?

Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005

cumulative innovations and the impact of possible competition between rival software development teams are considered. …

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005

process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany …. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific information provided by … confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to previous studies, this effect is …

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A Theory of Technology Diffusion

Mukoyama, Toshihiko - EconWPA - 2003

What determines the speed of the technology diffusion? What are the consequences of diffusion? This paper presents a model to address these questions. Skilled machine-users adopt a new technology first, while unskilled users wait until machines become more reliable and accessible. The quality...

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A Model of Primary and Secondary Waves in Investment Cycles

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

reconstructed by modelling the functioning of their cognitive processes when innovations appear. Recognition of the possibilities … propagates to the whole economy triggering an investments upswing. likewise, unsuccessful innovations can trigger a downswing. …

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VERTICAL R&D SPILLOVERS, COOPERATION, MARKET STRUCTURE, AND INNOVATION

Atallah, Gamal - EconWPA - 2000

This paper studies vertical R&D spillovers between upstream and downstream firms. The model incorporates two vertically related industries, with horizontal spillovers within each industry and vertical spillovers between the two industries. Four types of R&D cooperation are studied: no...

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R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models

Hussinger, Katrin - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyzes the effects of public subsidies on R&D expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment. Cross sectional data at the firm level is used. By applying parametric and...

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What Do Endogenous Growth Models Contribute?

Mare, Dave - EconWPA - 2004

Endogenous growth theory is one of the mainstream economics approaches to modelling economic growth. This paper provides a non-technical overview of some key strands of the endogenous growth theory (EGT) literature, providing references to key articles and texts. The intended audience is policy...

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What Do Endogenous Growth Models Contribute?

Maré, David C. - EconWPA - 2005

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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Claire, LELARGE - EconWPA - 2004

and process innovations to the value of patent protection. This model and the feature of the data imply the estimation of … incentives to innovate in products but not in processes and, conversely, the value of product innovations only – and not the one … of process innovations – increases the incentives to patent. Second, we find that the distributions of product …

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Competitive Advantages of the Beira Interior (Portugal): A TOWS Approach

Ferreira, Joao; Leitao, Joao; Raposo, Mario - EconWPA - 2005

The formulation of a competitive strategy implies an extended understanding, in terms of the industrial structures, of the mains fields where the nations compete and those structures evolve. The environmental conditions of a region, and of its industries, determine both the generic strategies,...

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