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contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …
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What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...
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that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
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We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an …
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Pharmaceutical firms spend increasing amounts in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), which raises the question of whether sufficient investment is left after mergers to further develop firms’ internal drug development capability. We evaluate the effects of M&As on firms’ post-merger R&D...
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linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
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We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team …-border mobility of inventors within the firm. The inventor team composition has important consequences for how the new knowledge is …
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management team’s age has a significant negative effect on innovation. The General Manager’s tenure plays a significant positive …Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms’ innovation by using a large sample of …
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We examine the Nash equilibria of a game where two national governments set patent breadth strategically. Broader patents make R&D more attractive, but the effect on static efficiency is nonmonotonic. In a North.South model, where only the North can innovate, harmonization of patent breadth...
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Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …
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