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This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
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In this study we investigate the factors that shape the attitudes of scientists toward starting their own business or working in a private sector firm. The analysis is based on data collected from scientists working in the German Max Planck Society, a research institution devoted to basic...
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on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where …
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This paper forges links between a dynamic theory of markets and the reality of long term market changes. Goods are seen as being linked to the range of actions which they make possible. Thus it can be shown that the evolution of markets is closely connected with changing knowledge and property...
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In this paper the Malmquist index of total factor productivity is applied to a sample of 87 countries observed over the period 1960-90. This index and the method needed to quantify it, the data envelopment analysis, has substantial advantages as compared to traditional growth accounting. Two of...
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neutrality could seriously harm the development of innovative business models and discourage innovation and investment. …
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This policy paper on science-industry technology transfer has four emphases: the rationale of recent changes in German science policy, the contribution of diverse transfer channels to economic development as well as the role of IPR in that context, the differences in the institutional framework...
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What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …
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This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We … develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous … innovation sizes. Government demand in high-tech industries increases the market size in these industries and, with it, the …
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The paper aims to investigate the diffusion process of two competing innovative technologies in the health care sector. Novelties in cardiovascular surgery will serve as an example. Using a rather simple modeling approach for the ecisions of adopters and suppliers we simulate the evolution of a...
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