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Are ex ante and ex post licensing agreements useful instruments to lessen uncertainty in R&D?
Siebert, Ralph - 2013
In the last decades, technologies became more complex which increased the degree of uncertainty in R&D. To overcome the uncertainty, firms frequently engage in R&D collaborations, e.g., Research Joint Ventures (RJVs), and licensing agreements. While RJVs are well explored in the literature, very...
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Innovation of network goods : a non-innovating firm will gain
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Mustonen, Mikko - 2002
of a consumer increases with aggregate consumption. The post-innovation network consists of two compatible sub … underinvest in innovation. …
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Trade in information technologies and changes in the demand for occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in … Labour Force Survey and obtain a dataset of 12 European countries and 2001-2007 period. I show that IT imports from China are … be attributed to the trade with China. …
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Acquisition for sleep
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Olofsson, Charlotta; Persson, Lars - 2020
Within the policy debate, there is a fear that large incumbent firms buy small firms' inventions to ensure that they are not used in the market. We show that such "acquisitions for sleep" can occur if and only if the quality of a process invention is small; otherwise, the entry profit will be...
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
-efficiency gains from better management of the production processes, inventories, supply-chain, product distribution, and timing of … innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization … investments ; competitive advantage ; production management ; supply-chain management …
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The effect of adversity on process innovations and managerial incentives
Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009
This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...
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Creative destruction and productive preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … are shown to be solved by verification through entry for sale. -- acquisitions ; entrepreneurship ; innovation ; start …
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Bait and Switch : how do Chinese firms use proceeds from seasoned equity offerings
Bo, Hong; Huang, Zhongnan; Sterken, Elmer - 2015
We reveal motivations of Chinese firms for issuing Seasoned Equity Offerings (SEO) by examining why firms change the use of SEO proceeds and how they use unspecified SEO proceeds. Using 533 SEOs issued by Chinese firms during 1999 - 2006, we find that firms do not use unspecified SEO proceeds on...
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Technology transfer and early industrial development : evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance
Giorcelli, Michela; Li, Bo - 2022
1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the "156 Projects" in China for building technologically advanced industrial … production reallocation from state-owned to privately owned companies since the late 1990s. …
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The unfinished business of state-owned enterprise reform in the People's Republic of China
Holz, Carsten A. - 2019
This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After …
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