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The role of technology in M&As : a firm-level comparison of cross-border and domestic deals

Frey, Rainer; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim> - 2006

Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of mergeractivities. This paper analyzes the role of technology in mergers and acquisitions(M&As) at the firm level. Based on a newly created data set that combines financialinformation and patent data for public limited...

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Gains and Pains from Contract Research : A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Grimpe, Christoph; Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

Determining the research and development (R&D) boundaries of the firm as the choicebetween internal, collaborative and external technology acquisition has since long been amajor challenge for firms to secure a continuous stream of innovative products or processes.While research on R&D...

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Motives for Innovation Co-operation Evidence from theCanadian Survey of Innovation

Schmidt Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sectorto co-operate on innovation projects …. Our focus is on the motives behind this decisionand the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation … activities,which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from theCanadian Survey of Innovation 2005 we find …

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Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics and Political Science

This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate inIndian states has affected the pattern of manufacturing growthin the period 1958-92. We show that states which ammendedthe Industrial Disputes Act in a pro-worker direction experiencedlowered output, employment, investment and...

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The Economic History of Sovereignty: Communal Responsibility, the Extended Family, and the Firm

Börner, Lars; Ritsch, Albrecht - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich>; … - 2008

Economic institutions encompassing increasingly sophisticated concepts of risk-sharing and liability flourished in Europe since the High Middle Ages. These innovations occurred in an environment of fragmented local jurisdictions, not within the framework of the territorial state. In this short...

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Quantifying the Contribution of Technological Change to Economic Growth in Different Eras: A Review of the Evidence

Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Most economic historians would surely endorse Paul Romer's view expressed above that technological progress lies at the heart of long run economic growth. Long ago Kuznets identified the epoch of 'modern economic growth' as one where growth came to be driven by scientific and technological...

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Competition and Innovation in 1950’s Britain

Broadberry, Stephen N.; Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

We find little support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of a positiverelationship between market power and innovation … viewed as arisinglargely from the difficulties of reaping the benefits of innovation rather thanfrom a failure to innovate …

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Transferring Technical Knowledge and Innovating in Europe, c.1200-1800

Epstein, Stephan R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

innovation under three headings: How was premodern technical knowledge stored to avoid loss? How were tacit, visual, verbal, and …

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Bremen’s Innovation Policy

Plöger, Jörg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

Already in the early 1980s, city officials realised the challenge of structural change for Bremen. It was at this point that decisions were made to initiate a profound ‘change of direction’ in the economic focus of the city (Warsewa, 2006). In the past, Bremen’s economic fortunes had been...

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TRANSFORMING CITIES ACROSS EUROPE

Power, Anne T.; Plöger, Jörg; Winkler, Astrid - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

a high proportion ofmanufacturing jobs until the 1970s andwere internationally renowned for theirskills and innovation …

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