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The sale of ideas (e.g. through licensing) facilitates vertical specialization and the division of labor between research and development. This specialization can improve the overall efficiency of the innovative process. However, these gains depend on the timing of the sale: the buyer of an idea...
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Horizontal mergers are usually under the scrutiny of antitrust authorities due to their potential undesirable effects on prices and consumer surplus. Ex-post evidence, however, suggests that not always these effects take place and even relevant mergers may end up having negligible price effects....
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This paper investigates the degree of competition in the WAEMU financial industry over the period 2002-2007 using firm-level data (591 year-firm observations). Market structure analysis, the Panzar-Rosse model and conjectural variation are applied to assess the level of competition. The results...
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We present a Cournot model that compares the critical threshold of collusion in Duopoly and Oligopoly Markets where the actors are private, mixed or public. We assume that the incentive critical threshold for collusion depends on the interconnection fees. The different threshold values...
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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 innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …
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comparative analysis framework contributing to the assessment of participative design methods for rural innovation with regard to … explorative innovation. We used a framework proposed by Charue-Duboc et al. (2010) as an entry point to build an analytical grid … framework we propose makes it possible to assess the capacity of these methods to foster exploratory innovation and enhance …
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Purpose This paper aims to provide evidence of the major role of non-technological activities in the innovation process …. It highlights the effects of marketing and organizational innovation strategies on technological innovation performance …. Design/methodology/approach The article tests theoretical hypotheses on a sample of 555 firms of the 4th Community Innovation …
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The article examines the process of innovation and knowledge sharing from a perspective that focuses on the influence … innovation process and show that the role played by the broker can be political. We identify two strategies that are used by …
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In this paper we propose to revisit two emblematic projects, Manhattan and Polaris, with the models developed by design theory. In particular we demonstrate, relying on recent advances in design theory, how these major projects, traditionally presented as radical innovations, are in fact quite...
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La France est l'une des premières nations pour les sports d'hiver avec les Etats Unis et l'Autriche. Le département de la Savoie rassemble 39,2 % de part de marché, 37% de la fréquentation touristique hivernale se regroupent dans 13 très grandes stations dont 8 se trouvent en Savoie . Au...
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