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The Long-Run Evolution of Infrastructure Services
Goldsmith, Hugh - 2014
This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … millennia, although at times it has been pivotal in bringing innovation, taking risks and driving efficiency. It is argued that … innovation cycles, stressing that only an evolutionary, multi-disciplinary, systems approach embracing technology, finance, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435734
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Quadratic Costs, Innovation and Welfare : The Role of Technology
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824572
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Platform Design and Innovation Incentives : Evidence from the Product Ratings System on Apple's App Store
Leyden, Benjamin T. - 2021
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224087
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The Role of Human Capital in Structural Change and Growth in an Open Economy : Innovative and Absorptive Capacity Effects
Bye, Brita; Faehn, Taran - 2021
Since the financial crisis in 2008, slow growth has riddled Europe and the Covid-19 pandemic is amplifying the challenge. Promoting economic growth and transforming to a more knowledge-based industrial structure will be high on the agenda for the coming decades. We study how more and better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249658
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Language as a Renewable Resource : Import, Dissipation, and Absorption of Innovations
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2021
The structural stability of different languages subject to the import of external elements is analyzed. We focus on the temporal side of the different processes interacting to produce a change in the structure of the language. That is, the rate of import and dissipation of new elements is seen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315865
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Dynamics of open source movements
Athey, Susan; Ellison, Glenn - 2010
This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of quality, contributing programmers, and users who contribute customer support to other users. Programmers who have used open source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274877
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Long-run selection and the work ethic
Josephson, Jens; Waerneryd, Karl - 2004
That individuals contribute in social dilemma interactions even when contributing is costly is a well-established observation in the experimental literature. Since a contributor is always strictly worse off than a non-contributor the question is raised if an intrinsic motivation to contribute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261072
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Initial luck, status-seeking and snowballs lead to corporate success and failure
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2004
Corporate success stories often resemble a snowball. We show how initial luck in hiring talented people, the resulting technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and statusseeking by workers and by consumers can make small initial differences generate large differences over time.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261213
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International trade and cultural diversity : a model of preference selection
Bala, Vankatesh; Long, Ngo Van - 2004
We consider the evolution of preferences when trade occurs between two countries. We show that if one country is much larger than the other, its preferences can eventually take over the preferences of the second country. This result may provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261231
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Redistribution and occupational choice in a Schumpeterian growth model
Garcίa-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Wen, Jean-François - 2004
We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is … social insurance, thus encouraging innovation and accelerating growth. The general equilibrium effects of the reallocation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273729