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role. In this paper, we give examples of various theories on the relationship between cultural values and entrepreneurship …
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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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innovation process. Rather than debating their accuracy and efficiency, we adopt a pragmatic approach to business models -- we … device that allows entrepreneurs to explore a market and plays a performative role by contributing to the construction of the … techno-economic network of an innovation.WP abstract: Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original …
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integrating the new innovation into existing technologies. The findings have implications for how entrepreneurs from early stage …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 …
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We develop an overlapping generations model with environmental quality and endogenous environmental culture. Based upon … environmental culture and maintenance. Depending on the parameter conditions, there exists one of two possible, asymptotically … stable steady states, one with and one without investments in environmental culture. For low wealth levels, society is unable …
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In this article we study the implication of thresholds in preferences. To model this we extend the basic model of John and Pecchenino (1994) by allowing the current level of environmental quality to have a discrete impact on how an agent trades off future consumption and environmental quality....
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Policymakers have good reasons to prefer capital-based policies - such as CAFE standards or feebates programs - over a carbon price. A carbon price minimizes the discounted cost of a climate policy, but may result in existing capital being under-utilized or scrapped before its scheduled...
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We propose an ethical viewpoint based on the possibility of the realization of the worst-case scenario in order to reduce future generations risks in terms of discounting. Applied to the question of conservation of a renewable resource, we show that an economy, where the social planner takes...
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This paper analyzes the double dividend and distributional issues within an overlapping generations models framework with involuntary unemployment. We characterize the necessary conditions for the obtention of a double dividend when the revenue of the environmental tax is recycled by a variation...
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There are two main approaches for defining social welfare relations for an economy with infinite horizon. The first one is to consider the set of intertemporal utility streams generated by a general set of bounded consumptions and define a preference relation between them. This relation is...
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