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This paper studies the empirical relation between market competition and innovation using Luxembourg's Structural … on the idea of cost-efficiency. From this, the paper analyses the relation between competition and innovation performance … relation between competition and innovation is non-linear and depends crucially on the efficient use of inputs to production …
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In this paper we discuss two propositions: the supply and demand of knowledge, and network externalities. We outline the characteristics that distinguish knowledge-intensive industries from the general run of manufacturing and service businesses. Knowledge intensity and knowledge specialisation...
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chapter in conjunction with Chapter 19, which deals with knowledge, information and innovation. In this chapter, we are …
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The optimal term of copyright has been a matter for extensive debate over the last decade. Using a simple model we characterise optimal term as a function of a few key parameters. We estimate this function using a combination of new and existing data on recordings and books and find an optimal...
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The optimal level for copyright has been a matter for extensive debate over the last decade. This paper contributes several new results on this issue divided into two parts. In the first, a parsimonious theoretical model is used to prove several novel propositions about the optimal level of...
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activity in a single market. By contrast, this paper studies the adoption of a sequence of product innovations in two markets … information scenario, it is shown in a two incumbent model that if the innovation is drastic (total replacement of the old product … adopting the innovations across each other's markets. On the other hand, with non-drastic innovation (partial replacement of …
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Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004We develop a general theoretical framework of trade on a platform on which buyers and sellers interact. The platform may be owned by a single large, or many small independent or vertically integrated intermediaries. We...
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innovation. Its main purpose is to assess the effects of competitiveness clusters policy on the incentives of firms to innovate …
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The aim of the contribution is to focus on the innovation of Italian medium and medium -large multinationals who … internationalization of these enteprises, where innovation plays a key role. Flexibility and specialization in the production are also …
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United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The … apparently hostile to innovation, i.e. giving back negative marginal value added on innovation ? A model is introduced in which … equilibrium in which innovating is rational though suboptimal, without premium on innovation being a real economic profit. The …
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