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Corporate R&D and productivity in Germany and the United Kingdom
Bond, Stephen; Harhoff, Dietmar; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper analyzes differences in R&D spending and in the impact of R&D on productivity between German and UK firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745353
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126004
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Green chemistry and green engineering in China: drivers, policies and barriers to innovation
Matus, Kira J. M.; Xiao, Xin; Zimmerman, Julie B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
With the world’s largest population and consistently rapid rates of economic growth, China faces a choice of whether it … in the fields of green chemistry and green engineering in China, which we find to be largely driven by energy efficiency … engineering in China. They are (1) competition between economic growth and environmental agendas, (2) regulatory and bureaucratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071127
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Social networks and technology adoption in Northern Mozambique
Bandiera, Oriana; Rasul, Imran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
Despite their potentially strong impact on poverty, agricultural innovations are often adopted slowly. Using a unique household dataset on sunflower adoption in Mozambique, we analyse whether and how individual adoption decisions depend upon the choices of others in the same social networks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884493
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Investment, R&D and financial constraints in Britain and Germany
Bond, Stephen; Harhoff, Dietmar; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in two countries between 1985 and 1994. For German firms, cash flow is not informative in simple econometric models of fixed investment or R&D. In identical specifications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884496
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Incentives and invention in universities
Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884513
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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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Quality competition, market structure and endogenous growth
Tong, Jian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
This paper studies the role of quality competition in endogenous growth and institutional factors which can affect growth through affecting quality competition. The R&D-based growth literature as it stands attributes the incentives for innovations to monopolist market structure, and regards the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928601
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Path dependence, endogenous innovation, and growth
Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper presents a model of endogenous innovation and growth, in which technological change is path dependent. The historical pattern of technological development plays a central role in determining the pace of future technological change. Path dependence is explained using a distinction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928717
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Diversity and specialisation in cities: why, where and when does it matter?
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
Why are some cities specialised and others diversified? What are the advantages and disadvantages of urban specialisation and diversity? To what extent does the structure of cities, and the activities of the firms and people in them, change over time? How does the sectoral composition of cities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744892