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Should we give up after Solyndra? : optimal technology R&D portfolios under uncertainty
Webster, Mort; Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Popp, David; … - 2015
Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298511
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Legal institutions, innovation and growth
Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - 2011
We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development - periods when legal … excessive (greater than first-best) R&D investment and output growth. -- legal system ; commitment ; flexibility ; innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153886
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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2011
-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale … desire of governments to foster risky 'breakthrough' innovations. -- business taxation ; innovation ; market entry …
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Post pandemic Phillips curves : cyclical and structural drivers in the great policy trade off
Kochugovindan, Sree; Lawson, Jeremy - 2023
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Innovation and trade policy in a globalized world
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T.; Impullitti, Giammario - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439284
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A strategic R&D investment with flexible development time in real option game analysis
Villani, Giovanni - 2009
The real option theory provides a useful tool to evaluate an R&D investment under uncertainty because, unlike the NPV (Net Present Value), it considers the managerial flexibility that may be expand the investment opportunity value. However, most R&D investment projects are open to competing...
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Strategic R&D with knowledge spillovers and endogenous time to complete
Lukach, Ruslan (contributor); Kort, Peter M. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498769
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Outsourcing in contests
Meland, Frode (contributor); Straume, Odd Rune (contributor) - 2006
We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research tournament or a procurement contest for being awarded some production contract. We find that the possibility of outsourcing increases competition between the contestants, leading...
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The monopolistic polluter under environmental liability law : incentives for abatement and R&D
Endres, Alfred; Friehe, Tim - 2011
This paper analyzes the output, abatement, and investment decisions made by a monopolistic polluter under environmental liability law. The model applied considers both integrated and end-of-pipe abatement technologies. We find that in the case of fixed technology, in many instances negligence...
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The internationalisation of R&D and the knowledge production function
García-Vega, María; Hofmann, Patricia; Kneller, Richard - 2012
This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between acquisitions by MNEs from technologically leading countries and those behind the technological frontier. We show that both acquire similarly R&D intensive domestic firms, but there are...
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