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STANDARDIZATION VERSUS PREFERENCE FOR VARIETY IN LINEAR COURNOT OLIGOPOLY
Deroïan, Frédéric; Gannon, Frédéric - HAL - 2007
We consider a Cournot oligopoly setting in which consumers have an intrinsic preference for variety, while unit production costs of firms increase with the number of goods they produce. This environment exhibits a general under-provision of variety with respect to social welfare.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794319
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Technical Foundations to Cut Down Administrative Red Tape: The Case of the Canton of Vaud
Glassey, Olivier; Pichaureaux, Sophie - HAL - 2011
In this paper, we describe an analysis framework we developed in order to analyze the implementation of a simplification strategy in a Swiss Canton. This strategy is based on a participatory analysis of services and on the development of eGovernment foundations through the use of open standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294620
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International accounting standardization : the institutional legitimacy of a private standards setters
Heem, Gregory - HAL - 2007
The objective of this paper is to analyse the sources of legitimacy of the producing organizations of accounting … standards. Firstly, we examine the need for harmonisation of accounting standards in particular to maintain the confidence of … legitimacy and analyses the legitimacy of the International Standard Accounting Board (IASB). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898794
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Can open source projects succeed when the producers are not users? Lessons from the data processing field.
JULLIEN, Nicolas; Roudaut, Karine - HAL - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898829
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Nuclear reactors' construction costs: The role of lead-time, standardization and technological progress
Berthélemy, Michel; Rangel, Lina Escobar - HAL - 2013
endogeneity, using expected demand variation as an instrument. We argue that benefits from nuclear reactor program standardization …, we show that the standardization of nuclear reactors under construction has an indirect and positive effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899736
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Standardization versus Preference for Variety in Linear Cournot Oligopoly
Deroian, Frédéric; Gannon, Frédéric - HAL - 2007
We consider a Cournot oligopoly setting in which consumers have an intrinsic preference for variety, while unit production costs of firms increase with the number of goods they produce. This environment exhibits a general under-provision of variety with respect to social welfare.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792076
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French Engineering Graduates in Corporate R & D : Is it worthwhile ?
Bourdon, Jean; Bonnard, Claire; Paul, Jean-Jacques - HAL - 2008
At the beginning of the 1990s, Beltramo, Bourdon and Paul presented a report for the French Commissariat au Plan on the prospect for the labour market for scientists, and other papers, which showed earnings differences between engineering graduates performing tasks in R&D or not (the first ones...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792745
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Comment concilier innovation d'exploitation et innovation d'exploration : une étude de cas dans le secteur automobile.
Chanal, Valérie; Mothe, Caroline - HAL - 2005
Une entreprise évoluant dans un environnement fortement concurrentiel doit développer sa capacité à combiner deux types d'innovation : une innovation d'exploitation, basée sur l'efficience du management par projet, et une innovation d'exploration, basée sur le renouvellement et la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793129
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TRADE LIBERALIZATION, COMPETITION AND GROWTH
Licandro, Omar; Navas-Ruiz, Antonio - HAL - 2007
The aim of this paper is to understand whether international trade may enhance innovation and growth through an increase in competition.We develop a two-country endogenous growth model, both countries producing the same set of goods, with firm specific R&D and a continuum of oligopolistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794063
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The creative intelligence
Samet, Kaies - HAL - 2010
The creative intelligence lies in the framework of the "intelligent" way which must be used to assure creativity and, thus, innovation. As its name suggests, the creative intelligence excludes imitation. Therefore, firstly, it requires an important R&D investment that manifests itself in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794721