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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 … causal relationship among sales and cash flow on the one hand and investment and R&D on the other, using three large panels … investment and R&D are more highly sensitive to cash flow and sales in the United States than in France and Japan. Corresponding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413030
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SELECTION OR SELF-REJECTION? APPLICATIONS INTO A TREATMENT
Takalo, Tuomas; Tanayama, Tanja; Toivanen, Otto - EconWPA - 2005
continuous optimal treatment with outcome heterogeneity, where the treatment outcome depends on the applicant’s investment. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561480
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Innovation, Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights
Weinhold, Diana; Reichert, Usha Nair- - EconWPA - 2004
play a role in the contemporaneous evolution of innovation in a broad cross section of countries today. Our results …, while 'home grown' innovation is more sensitive to internal structural and institutional factors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407698
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Implications of the Economics of Religion to the Empirical Economic Research
Mangeloja, Esa - EconWPA - 2003
This paper collects most recent developments in the emerging economic sub-area Economics of Religion. According to secularization thesis, the importance of beliefs and religious activities should weaken as education, scientific knowledge and economic welfare increases. That hypothesis has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118941
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126129
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L’hypothèse de la triple hélice dans le dispositif français d’innovation : L’hypothèse de la triple hélice dans le dispositif français d’innovation : le cas de l'Auvergne...
Lamy, Erwan; Levratto, Nadine - EconWPA - 2004
This paper aims at showing how the Research and innovation Act of July 1999 modifies (stimulates?) the role of the … of firms profit from these devices? Do the structures of support for innovation at the regional level deploy their … example the case of Auvergne, we will seek to show in what sense the organisational mode of the innovation which prevails …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412959
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Innovation and Market Value
Hall, Bronwyn H. - EconWPA - 1999
is briefly presented. Then the empirical literature that relates Tobin's q to R&D and patent measures is surveyed and new … corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that the patent measures contain information about this value above …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413048
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Protéger les méthodes commerciales liées à Internet : un frein au développement ?
Delzelle, Benoit - EconWPA - 2003
La protection juridique des méthodes commerciales liées à Internet est très controversée. Est-il opportun de protéger des biens immatériels ou des idées ? N'est-ce pas menacer durablement le développement de la "nouvelle économie" ? N'est-ce pas brider l'activité inventive et...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407748
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How Well Do Patent Citations Measure Flows of Technology? Evidence from French Innovation Surveys
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Megan, MacGARVIE - EconWPA - 2004
Patent citation data are used in a growing body of economics and business research on technological diffusion. Research … diffusing outward from the patenting entity. Until now, there exists little evidence on whether or not patent citations are a … good measure of knowledge flows. Our paper assesses the legitimacy of using European patent citations as a measure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118706
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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Claire, LELARGE - EconWPA - 2004
issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …, process) and on the existence of a patent protection or not. We obtain a three-equation model that links the values of product … and process innovations to the value of patent protection. This model and the feature of the data imply the estimation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118819