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Dynamic incentives in organizations: Success and inertia

Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - 2010

We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...

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Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield : The Economics of R&D, Innovation, and Technological Change

Link, Albert N. (contributor); … - 2005

Edwin Mansfield was a research pioneer into the economics of R and D and technological change. As appreciation and remembrance for his scholarly contributions, eminent scholars have contributed original papers for this edited volume. The authors have followed the 'Mansfieldian' approach of...

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The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability

Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

An inventor can invest research effort to come up with an innovation. Once an innovation is made, a contract is …

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Technology Transfer in a Global Economy

Audretsch, David B. - 2012

of Central Florida in Regional Economic Development -- The impact of technological acquisitions on innovation and quality … property rights in the biotechnology industry -- External technology supply and client-side innovation -- The Enrolment in an R …

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Essays in Public Sector Entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B. (ed.); Link, Albert N. (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Motivating Entrepreneurship and Innovation Activity -- Chapter 3 Publicly Funded … Principal Investigators as Transformative Agents of Public Sector Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 4 An Innovation Policy Framework … -- Chapter 5 Radical and Incremental Innovation and the Role of University Scientist. …

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Public/Private Partnerships : Innovation Strategies and Policy Alternatives

Link, Albert N. (contributor) - 2006

Research and development (R and D) leads to innovation, and innovation leads to technological change. Technological … innovation system. This text is intended for upper-level undergraduate and MBA courses such as Economics and Technology …, Economics of Innovation, and Economics of Science and Technology, among others. The first chapter introduces the concept of …

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Exclusive versus Non-exclusive Licensing Strategies and Moral Hazard

Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

An upstream firm can license its innovation to downstream firms that have to exert further development effort. There …

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Trade Secret Laws, Labour Mobility and Innovations

Motta, Massimo; Rønde, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution to innovation is crucial, a covenant …

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And the Winner Is--Acquired: Entrepreneurship as a Contest with Acquisition as the Prize

Henkel, Joachim; Rønde, Thomas; Wagner, Marcus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

paper, we analyze a two-stage innovation game between one incumbent and a large number of entrants. In the first stage … innovation. In the second stage, successful entrants bid to be acquired by the incumbent. We assume that entrants cannot survive …&D approaches than the incumbent and are more likely to generate the highest value innovation. Thus, the need of entrants to be …

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Bending the Arc of Innovation: Public Support of R&D in Small, Entrepreneurial Firms

Link, Albert N.; Scott, John T. - 2013

, entrepreneurial firms, concluding public R&D investments, primarily funded by the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR …) program, are indeed bending the arc of innovation. Firms that receive SBIR project funding would not undertake the projects in … ability to commercialize innovations. Bending the Arc of Innovation offers a theoretical model of the effects of the SBIR …

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