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Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) proposes an original way to solve the incentive dilemma for the production of information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative...
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Empirical studies provide evidence of positive spillovers from multinational firms to upstream suppliers coupled with negative spillovers to firms in the same industry. This paper shows that these empirical regularities can be rationalized in a model with incompatibilities between foreign and...
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the...
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This paper proposes a model in the spirit of Aghion and al. (2005) that relates the magnitude of the impact of competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the shape is flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant...
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Cette recherche détermine la mesure dans laquelle les dirigeants adoptent un comportement myopique d'investissement en R&D ; défini comme l'ajustement intentionnel des investissements de long terme dans l'objectif d'atteindre des résultats sur le court terme. Cette recherche s'interroge...
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Cette recherche observe comment la comptabilisation et l'ajustement des dépenses de R&D sont utilisées comme modalités de gestion des résultats. Le recours à une variable médiatrice permet d'observer que les dirigeants activent prioritairement les dépenses de R&D avant de s'engager dans...
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In the defence industry the recent development of a 'market for technology', the creation of new European high-technology companies as well as transformations in government agencies have driven firms to reposition their technological and organizational skills. Our objective is to show that the...
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Technology has been playing a central role in defense spending or arms-producing countries since World War II. Although there has been no major threat or conflict since the 1990s, defense R&D absorbs a large share of military expenditures, as well as public R&D. This technology-centric paradigm...
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In this note we reconsider the paper of Brod and Shivakumar (1999), published in the Journal of Industrial Economics, who analyze a twostage model in which the firms compete in two dimensions and examine the effect of semi-collusion when the non-production activity is R&D. They shed light on...
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European Biotechnology companies and public policy-makers face to a number of crucial problems related to the development of Biotechnology in Europe : European industrial competitiveness, the relative under-exploitation of the European science base in Biotechnology, poor technology transfer...
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