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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices : The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K

Bartel, Ann - 2007

This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...

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The Complementary Role of Exports and R&D Investments as Sources of Productivity Growth

Aw, Bee Yan - 2005

This paper examines two potential channels of knowledge acquisition that underlie firm productivity growth in the Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in R&D and/or worker training. We focus on the argument that a firm's own investments in R&D are...

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Competition in the Computer Industry

Goolsbee, Austan - 2001

This paper estimates the relative price sensitivity of individuals' choice of whether to buy computers online versus in retail stores using a new data source on the computer purchase behavior of more than 20,000 people. To estimate the degree of competition between the two channels, the paper...

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Whither Flat Panel Displays?

Krishna, Kala - 1996

This paper examines possible consequences of subsidies to R&D and to volume production proposed under the Clinton administration's flat panel display initiative. We do this in the context of a model in which firms behave competitively in the short run, while realizing that their choices of...

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Sizing up Market Failures in Export Pioneering Activities

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2017

We argue that existence of public good does not necessarily imply market failure, and illustrate this point in the context of international trade. An influential hypothesis states that export pioneers are too few relative to social optimum because the first exporter's action creates an...

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Market Value and Patent Citations : A First Look

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2000

measures based on patents and their citations as indicators of technological output and information flow. This paper explores … the patents. Using a new and comprehensive dataset containing over 4800 U. S. Manufacturing firms and their patenting … activity for the past 30 years, we explore the contributions of R&D spending, patents, and citation-weighted patents to …

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The Meaning of Patent Citations : Report on the NBER/Case-Western Reserve Survey of Patentees

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2000

observed patent citations. A cohort of 1993 patentees were asked specifically about 2 patents that they had cited, and a third … for the cited patents than for the placebos. There is, however, a large amount of noise in citations data; it appears that …

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Protecting Their Intellectual Assets : Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)

Cohen, Wesley M. - 2000

firms typically protect the profits due to invention with a range of mechanisms, including patents, secrecy, lead time … advantages and the use of complementary marketing and manufacturing capabilities. Of these mechanisms, however, patents tend to … emphasized most heavily. A comparison of our results with the earlier survey findings of Levin et al. [1987] suggest that patents …

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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000

might enhance, or dampen, a firm's responsiveness to the availability of product patents. The picture presented here …

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150 Years of Patent Office Practice

Lerner, Josh - 2000

An extensive theoretical literature has examined the impact of information problems on interactions between government bodies and private firms. One little-explored empirical testing ground is the patent system. This paper examines the administrative practices of patent offices in sixty...

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