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Economic Adversity and Entrepreneurship-led Growth - Lessons from the Indian Software Sector

Athreye, Suma - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

-based entrepreneurship to flourish. In this paper, we draw on the experience of Indian software firms where entrepreneurial growth has belied …

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Information and intellectual property: The global challenges

Aiyer Ghosh, Rishab; Soete, Luc - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

The paper analyses the contribution of 'golden papers' - seminal works whose ideas remain as fresh and relevant today as when they were first published decades ago - and which continue to dominate academic discourse among successive generations of scholars. The authors analyse why two works...

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Knowledge disclosure, patents and optimal organization of research and development

Bhattacharya, Sudipto; Guriev, Sergei - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We develop a model of two-stage cumulative research and development (R&D), in which one Research Unit (RU) with an innovative idea bargains to license her nonverifiable interim knowledge exclusively to one of two competing Development Units (DUs) via one of two alternative modes: an Open sale...

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Breaking the Fence: Patent Rights and Biomedical Innovation in 'Technology Followers'

Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a "medical anti-commons" has been predicted due to a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now emerging. However, most industrial surveys that...

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The Role of the Intellectual Property Rights Regime for Foreign Investors in Post-Socialist Economies

Schnellbächer, Benedikt; Stephan, Johannes - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2009

We integrate international business theory on foreign direct investment (FDI) with institutional theory on intellectual property rights (IPR) to explain characteristics and behaviour of foreign investment subsidiaries in Central East Europe, a region with an IPR regime-gap vis-à-vis West...

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Mitigating 'anticommons' harms to research in science and technology

David, Paul A. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

There are three analytically distinct layers of the phenomenon that has been labeled 'the anticommons' and indicted as a potential impediment to innovation resulting from patenting and enforcement of IPR obtained on academic research results. This paper distinguishes among 'search costs',...

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Regional Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Biotech Industry: Exploring the Transition from Award-winning Nascent Entrepreneurs to Real Start-ups

Wolf, H.; Michelsen, Claus; Schwartz, Michael - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2010

Knowledge of factors that determine the transition from nascent entrepreneurship into real entrepreneurship is of major … explain transition probabilities, environmental characteristics have been fairly neglected. Given that entrepreneurship is a … transition from nascent entrepreneurship to new venture creation. Based on unique data on 103 nascent entrepreneurs in the German …

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Does Partner Type Matter in R&D Collaboration for Environmental Innovation?

Pippel, Gunnar - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2013

In the literature on environmental innovations R&D collaborations have been identified as a critical determinant of a firm’s environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the...

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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

This paper investigates the economic impact of the government's proposed new UK R&D tax credit. We measure the benefit of the credit by the effect on value added in the short and long_run. This is simulated from existing econometric estimates of the tax_price elasticity of R&D and the effect of...

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The Productivity Effects of Internal and External R&D: Evidence From a Dynamic Panel Data Model

Lokshin, Boris; Belderbos, René; Carree, Martin - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

We examine the impact of internal and external R&D on labor productivity in a 6-year panel of Dutch manufacturing firms. We apply a dynamic linear panel data model that allows for decreasing or increasing returns to scale in internal and external R&D and for economies of scope. We find...

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