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A general analysis of sequential merger games with an application to cross-border mergers
Salvo, Alberto - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
obtained for this wide class of models is associated with mergers not happening in isolation but rather bunching together. I … extend the results to the analysis of cross-border mergers, studying two standard models that satisfy the sufficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745143
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Strategic patenting and software innovation
Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … evidence that both strategic patenting and R&D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744919
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Strategic patenting and software innovation
Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … evidence that both strategic patenting and R&D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746431
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Innovation in business groups
Belenzon, Sharon; Berkovitz, Tomer - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. We find … that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate innovation. Group affiliation is particularly important in … industries that rely more on external finance and have a higher degree of information asymmetry. We also find that the innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746363
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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126072
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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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Upgrading and niche usage of PC operating systems
Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Microsoft has been dominating the market for PC operating systems (OS) for the last two decades. This paper analyzes the decision of firms to standardize on the mainstream OS family and assesses whether upgrading to the latest version within the MS family is a substitute for using niche OS. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746057
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IT industry in transformation: opportunities and challenges for India
Mitra, Raja M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746240
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Competing technologies in the database management systems market
Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
In this paper, we study the dynamics of the market for Database Management Systems (DBMS), which is commonly assumed to possess network effects and where there is still some viable competition in our study period, 2000 – 2004. Specifically, we make use of a unique and detailed dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746425
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Quantifying spillovers in open source content production: evidence from Wikipedia
Aaltonen, Aleksi Ville; Seiler, Stephan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...
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