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Survive another day: does uncertain financing affect the composition of investment?
Garicano, Luis; Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
); reduce investment drastically (by 19); and reduce very substantially process innovation and information technology investment …
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The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Storper, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is … contrast, innovation is much more dependent on a combination of good local socioeconomic structures and investment in science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125988
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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126607
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Heterogeneous mark-ups, growth and endogenous misallocation
Peters, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
with firms’ innovation and entry decisions, which determine the economy’s growth rate. To study this link between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884565
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Technology, information and the decentralization of the firm
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884642
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The weightless economy in economic development
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884693
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Motivation and sorting in open source software innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions – the ‘revealed preference’ of developers – to infer the underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884711
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Patents and cumulative innovation: causal evidence from the courts
Galasso, Alberto; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Cumulative innovation is central to economic growth. Do patent rights facilitate or impede such follow-on innovation …. Patent rights appear to block follow-on innovation only in the technology fields of computers, electronics and medical … small innovators, suggesting that patents may impede the ‘democratization’ of innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884734
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The rise of mass consumption societies
Matsuyama, Kiminori - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
This paper develops a model to understand mechanisms behind the rise of mass consumption societies. The development process depicted in the model follows the Flying Geese pattern, in which a series of industries takes off one after another. As productivity improves in these industries, each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928752
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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928804