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Radical Innovation and Network Evolution

Phlippen, Sandra; Riccaboni, Massimo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network structures. We use longitudinal data of interfirm R&D collaborations in the biopharmaceutical industry in which a new technological regime is established. Our findings suggest...

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Maintenance Costs, Obsolescence, and Endogenous Growth

Berden, Koen G.; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existingliterature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses the model of quality improvements todescribe...

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Signals in Science - On the Importance of Signaling in Gaining Attention in Science

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Which signals are important in gaining attention in science? For a group of 1,371 scientific articles published in 17 demography journals in the years 1990-1992 we track their influence and discern which signals are important in receiving citations. Three types of signals are examined: the...

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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...

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Collusion through Joint R&D: An Empirical Assessment

Duso, Tomaso; Roeller, Lars-Hendrik; Seldeslachts, Jo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product market. We show that a sufficient condition for...

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Evaluating the Capacity of Standard Investment Appraisal Methods

Akalu, Mehari Mekonnen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

The survey findings indicate the existence of gap between theory and practice of capital budgeting. Standard appraisal methods have shown a wider project value discrepancy, which is beyond and above the contingency limit. In addition, the research has found the growing trend in the use of value...

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Pros and Cons of ‘Backing Winners’ in Innovation Policy

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Jo, Seung-gyu - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

In the economics profession there is a fierce debate whether industrial and innovation policy should be targeted to specific sectors or firms. This paper discusses the welfare effects of such targeted policies from the perspective of strategic game theory of the firm. A theoretical case for...

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Subsidizing the Adoption of Energy-Saving Technologies: Analyzing the Impact of Uncertainty, Learning and Maturation

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Mulder, Peter; Soest, Daan P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

As part of the Kyoto Protocol, many countries have committed themselves tosubstantially reduce the emission of greenhouse gases within a politically imposed timeconstraint. Investment subsidies can be an important instrument to stimulate the adoption ofenergy-saving technologies to achieve...

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Hybrid R&D

Goyal, Sanjeev; Konovalov, Alexander; Moraga, Jose Luis - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

We develop a model of R&D collaboration in which individual firms carry out in-house research on core activities and undertake bilateral joint projects on non-core activities with other firms. We develop conditions on the profit functions of the firm under which R&D investments in different...

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A Real Options Perspective on R&D Portfolio Diversification

Bekkum, Sjoerd van; Pennings, Enrico; Smit, Han - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

portfolio risk, and changes diversification arguments when a portfolio is constructed. When R&D projects exhibit option …-like characteristics, correlation between projects plays a more complicated role than traditional portfolio diversification would suggest … hardly reduced by diversification. When projects are positively correlated, however, diversification is more effective than …

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