innovation process. Rather than debating their accuracy and efficiency, we adopt a pragmatic approach to business models -- we … techno-economic network of an innovation.WP abstract: Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original …

future investment in innovation by SME with respect to anticipated ‘rent' or financial returns. A survey of highly innovative …Small to medium enterprises (SME) are frequently associated with high levels of innovation. However, it is difficult … for such firms to fully assess the merits of a particular innovation. This study examined the risk-return profile of …

, gas, and renewable power plants). It finds that optimal investment in renewable energy may start before coal power has … been phased out and even before investment in gas has started, because doing so allows for smoothing investment over time … and reduces adjustment costs. Gas plants may be used to reduce short-term investment in renewable power and associated …

represented by the decrease in entropy of his beliefs, regardless of his preferences, initial wealth, or investment problem. We …

sector to study the impact of investment subsidies on equilibrium investment and output. Energy and capital are assumed to be … structures are considered for the energy market, free entry and natural monopoly. First, it is shown that investment subsidies … may induce a larger equilibrium investment into cleaner technologies either under free entry or natural monopoly. However …

contractual relationships that link exports from Sub-Saharan Africa to China and investment by Chinese firms in Sub-Saharan Africa … combine trade, aid and investment, which may create 'lock-in' effects. China's trade and investment focus on the commodities …, especially in oil-exporting countries. Chinese investment, however, increasingly involves other sectors, such as the …

adjustment costs on investment. …

Complicated neoclassical models predict that if investment is sensitive to current financial performance, this is a …, refers to the principle of "growth of the fitter" to explain investment-cash flow sensitivities as the workings of a healthy …

This paper presents a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment (the interest … those countries,investment relationships are estimated explaining investment by its user cost, sales and cash flow.A first … result is that investment is sensitive to user cost changes in all those four countries. Thisimplies an operative interest …

In this paper we present comparable results on the determinants of firms' investment and their link to monetary policy …