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The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry … on supermodularity and submodularity tests for obstacles to innovation (in the present application: lack of finance … analysis highlights the two phases of the innovation process in terms of the propensity and intensity of innovation. The …
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promotion. In this paper, we assess one popular justification for feed-in tariffs, i.e., induced innovation as a positive … spillover externality. Based on regressions with a time-technology fixed effect negative binomial model, we find that innovation …
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We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …
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Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the … industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation …
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measure for the innovative activity of a firm to identify the effects of credit constraints on the innovation behaviour of … financing conditions do not foster it. To explain this novel result we extend the usual theory of innovation activity by … rigidities with respect to a firm's individual innovation capacity, which leads to a differentiation between a long run and a …
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may be positive or negative, depending on foreign countries' trade position. -- innovation ; financial development ; R …
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This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...
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industries. The same pattern shows up in the three Dutch Community Innovation Surveys. …
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This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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globalization. We develop a competence-based definition of technological sovereignty, which puts innovation policy at the core of … cooperation and trade. Two case studies illustrate how innovation policy might be used to achieve technological sovereignty. …
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