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An inventor can invest research effort to come up with an innovation. Once an innovation is made, a contract is …
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approach that focusses on complex processes driven by endogenous innovation as well as crisis. The theoretical considerations … economics of self-organization of dynamic markets by ignorant actors -- Firms Navigating Through Innovation Spaces: A … Conceptualization -- A Proposal for a ‘National Innovation System plus Subjective Well Being’ Approach and an Evolutionary Systemic …
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Innovation: Conditions to Successfully Create Novelty for Economic Development -- Innovation: Induced Structural Change …, Coping and Normative Assessment -- Innovation and the Evolution of Capitalism …This volume is devoted to innovation with a special focus on its two sides, namely creation and destruction, and on its …
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This book provides an account of work in the Schumpeterian and evolutionary tradition of industrial dynamics and the evolution of industries. It is shown that over time industries evolve and change their structure. In this dynamic process, change is affected and sometimes constraint by many...
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Recent developments in economics have gone from the recognition of the importance of innovation for growth and the … exploration of innovation mechanisms to the incorporation of the results of the previous research into economic models. An … mechanisms of innovation creation and diffusion, the importance of agent heterogeneity, of market selection processes, of the …
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An upstream firm can license its innovation to downstream firms that have to exert further development effort. There …
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We study a two-period moral hazard problem with risk-neutral and wealth-constrained agents and three identical tasks. We show that the allocation of tasks over time is important if there is a capacity constraint on the number of tasks that can be performed in one period. We characterize the...
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We explore the dynamic evolution of property rights regimes in R&D alliances using the incomplete contract approach pioneered by Grossman, Hart and Moore (Hart and Moore, Journal of Political Economy (1990), and Grossman and Hart, Journal of Political Economy (1986)). In contrast to the standard...
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This paper discusses the optimal organization of sequential agency problems with contractible control actions under limited liability. In each of two stages, a risk-neutral agent can choose an unobservable effort level. A success in the first stage makes effort in the second stage more...
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