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Science parks, knowledge spillovers, and firms' innovative performance: evidence from Finland

Squicciarini, Mariagrazia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The paper focuses on the role of Science Parks (SPs) as seedbeds of innovation. It investigates whether and to what … proposed relies on count data models, uses patents as innovation performance indicators, and exploits original data regarding … controlling for the existence of innovation lags. Parks' first mover disadvantages also emerge, as well as non-negligible matching …

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Welfare effects of intellectual property in North-South model of endogenous growth with comparative advantage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This paper develops a model for analyzing the costs and benefits of intellectual property enforcement in LDCs. The North is more productive than the South and is the only source of innovator. There are two types of goods, and each bloc has a comparative advantage in producing a specific type of...

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Why Germany Has Such a Weak Growth Performance

Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

Germany has had an extremely low growth performance since 1995. The paper looks at the long-run reasons for this loss of economic dynamics besides German unification: These include leaving labor idle, a declining share of investment in GDP, a weaker innovative activity, an ineffective system for...

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Do Sources of Knowledge Transfer Matter? – A Firm-level Analysis in the PRD, China

LIU, Wan-Hsin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

different innovation outcomes, using a firm-level dataset collected in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. It also … innovation sales and to create new knowledge qualified for patenting. In addition to own R&D activities, they rely on sourcing … knowledge from different sets of sources to support them to carry out the last three types of innovation outcomes …

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Financial Development and Innovation in China: Evidence from the Provincial Data

Hanley, Aoife; LIU, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external … would otherwise impede regional innovation performance …

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Are Newly Exporting Firms more Innovative? Findings from Matched Spanish Innovators

Hanley, Aoife; Monreal-Pérez, Joaquín - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

process innovation rates …

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(In)determinacy, bargaining, and R&D policies in an economy with endogenous technological change

Lai, Chung-hui - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

In this paper, the author shows how the introduction of a bargaining game structure into a standard R&D endogenous growth model can be a potential source of local indeterminacy. He also shows that on a high-growth path, the government, by directly engaging in R&D activities and using R&D...

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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations

Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …

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Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

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Nursery cities: urban diversity, process innovation and the life-cycle of products

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making …

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