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R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Some Empirical Evidence

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

information for the innovation process of the firm. Appropriability is defined as the effectiveness of several protection …

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Green innovations and organisational change: making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

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Complementarity in the Innovation Strategy: Internal R&D, External Technology Acquisition and Cooperation

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … innovation activities. Using data from the Community Innovation Survey on Belgian manufacturing firms, we show that firms that …

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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a natural advantage of being located in the US then...

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Human Resource Management and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work organization (e.g. teams,...

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Endogenizing Know-How Flows Through the Nature of R&D Investments

Cassiman, Bruno; Pérez-Castrillo, J David; Veugelers, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

In this Paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firm’s innovation process with this firm’s investment … results indicate that firms with small budgets for innovation will not invest in basic research. This occurs in the short run …

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Top Research Productivity and its Persistence

Kelchtermans, Stijn; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The paper contributes to the debate on cumulative advantage effects in academic research by examining top performance in research and its persistence over time, using a panel dataset comprising the publications of biomedical and exact scientists at the KU Leuven in the period 1992-2001. We study...

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The Organization of Firms Across Countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...

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R&D Cooperation Between Firms and Universities: Some Empirical Evidence from Belgian Manufacturing

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

universities, using Community Innovation Survey data for Belgium. We find that large firms are more likely to have cooperative … agreements with universities. These agreements are formed whenever risk is not an important obstacle to innovation, and typically … appropriate the returns from innovation for explaining cooperative agreements with universities. We do argue that cooperating with …

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The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization

Bloom, Nicholas; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Guided by theories of management by exception, we study the impact of Information and Communication Technology on worker and plant manager autonomy and span of control. The theory suggests that information technology is a decentralizing force, whereas communication technology is a centralizing...

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