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Patent Scope and Technology Choice
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …
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Why Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects - But Still Not Risky Enough
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Entrepreneurs face higher commercialization costs than incumbents. We show that this implies that entrepreneurs will choose more risky projects than incumbents, aiming to reduce their high expected marginal commercialization cost. However, entrepreneurs may select too safe projects from a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818447
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Piece-Rates, On-the-Job Training and the Wage-Tenure Profile
Björklund, Anders; Åkerman, Jeanette - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
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