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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134417
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Royalty rates, sub licensing considerations and joint ventures.
Malki, Elli - EconWPA - 1997
Technology transfer agreements between universities and industrial companies usually involve royalties, sublicensing considerations and allocation of equity. This article extends the analysis of my previous one ("The Economic Sense of Royalty Rates", ewp-fin/970903)to deal with sublicensing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076945
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The economic sense of royalty rates.
Malki, Elli - EconWPA - 1997
Academic institutions, involved in technology transfer to industry, are always concerned about the "fairness" of the royalty rate payable to them. The common method used by practitioners is the "Industry-Standard Approach" which is based mainly on past experience. However such approach is very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134686
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VERTICAL R&D SPILLOVERS, COOPERATION, MARKET STRUCTURE, AND INNOVATION
Atallah, Gamal - EconWPA - 2000
innovation and competition depends on horizontal spillovers, vertical spillovers, and cooperative settings. The private … are taken into account. The paper proposes a theory of innovation and market structure, showing that the relation between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076906
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INNOVATION AND VENTURE CAPITAL EXITS
SCHWIENBACHER, Armin - EconWPA - 2001
-improving product innovation. We explicitly introduce product market characteristics into the analysis with the aim to identify their … capitalist. The entrepreneur has incentives to distort the innovation strategy so as to make an IPO the preferred exit. We derive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413189
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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 … CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The econometric analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118792
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Managerial and Customer Costs of Price Adjustment: Direct Evidence from Industrial Markets
Zbaracki, Mark; Ritson, Mark; Levy, Daniel; Dutta, Shantanu - EconWPA - 2004
We study the price adjustment practices and provide quantitative measurement of the managerial and customer costs of price adjustment using data from a large U.S. industrial manufacturer and its customers. We find that price adjustment costs are a much more complex construct than the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076839
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The Value of Online Information Privacy: An Empirical Investigation
Hann, Il-Horn; Hui, Kai-Lung; Lee, Tom S.; Png, I.P.L. - EconWPA - 2003
Concern over online information privacy is widespread and rising. However, prior research is silent about the value of information privacy in the presence of potential benefits from sharing personally identifiable information. We analyzed individuals' trade-offs between the benefits and costs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076866
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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development
Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper, a synthesis of salient findings of the authors’ book entitled “Investment Climate Around the World: Voices … of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private … the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions for the climate of business operation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077053
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Spinoffs, Privatization and Corporate Performance in Emerging Markets
Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen; Svejnar, Jan - EconWPA - 2004
We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of spinoffs and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly emerging market economy. Unlike the existing literature, which analyzes spinoffs almost exclusively in advanced economies, we control for accompanying ownership changes and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077066