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human capital investment, incentives to become an entrepreneur and to expand existing businesses, and insufficient … incentives within the university system to adjust curricula and research budgets to outside demand. Several policy measures …
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more important when there is an increase in network effects. A consequence is higher innovation incentives under an … reducing bidding competition, thereby also reducing acquisition prices and innovation incentives. …
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simultaneously provide the right incentives for individuals to create and expand firms that disseminate such innovations in the form … of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …
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It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...
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This paper analyzes a three-stage optimization problem in which a firm chooses (i) its technology, by deciding on a level of R&D, (ii) whether this technology is to be used in a domestic or in a foreign plant and (iii) the quantity produced and sold on the market. If technology transfer costs...
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strengthening the indigenous innovation capacity of domestic actors and, to an increasing extent, to the process of globalization of …
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forces: R&D spillovers and a home-market effect creating incentives for firms to locate production in the relatively large …
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This paper presents a model of R&D-driven growth without scale effects where firms can engage in both horizontal and vertical R&D activities. Unlike in earlier models of R&D-driven growth without scale effects by Jones (1995), Segerstrom (1998) and Young (1998), R&D subsidies can have long-run...
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Over the course of the last 10 or 15 years there appears to be taking place a fundamental shift in the "industrial paradigm" governing the nature of competition in advanced industrial markets. Among the characteristics of this shift are a transition from mass production to flexible manufacturing...
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