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Firm innovation under import competition from low-wage countries
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Liu, Runjuan; Tang, Rotao - 2017
-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …
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Private versus social incentives for pharmaceutical innovation
González, Paula; Macho-Stadler, Inés; … - 2015
wisdom that pharmaceutical firms devote too many resources to conducting R&D activities that lead to incremental innovations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406575
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International R&D spillovers and marginal social returns on R&D
Ogawa, Kazuo; Sterken, Elmer; Tokutsu, Ichiro - 2016
We analyze the impact of international R&D spillovers on recipient countries in terms of social and private returns. We divide the aggregate R&D stock by the business, government and education sectors and examine the impact on Total Factor Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D...
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Hierarchical structure in Brazilian industrial firms : an econometric study
Façanha, Luis Otávio (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497617
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Dynamic models of R&D, innovation and productivity : panel data evidence for Dutch and French manufacturing
Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre A.; … - 2013
This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
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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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R&D and production behavior of asymmetric duopoly subject to knowledge spillovers
Plasmans, Joseph E. J. - 2000
We construct an asymmetri c duopolistic R&D and production behavior model subject to knowledge spillovers. This model is an extension to the symmetric model of d'Aspremont and Jacquemin (A&J (1988)) and aims to determine the cooperative and non-cooperative R&D strategies for two agents of...
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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; Fæhn, 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...
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Technology, market structure and the gains from trade
Impullitti, Giammario; Licandro, Omar; Rendahl, Pontus - 2021
We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and … concentration contributes substantially to the gains from trade, mostly via its stimulating effect on innovation. Sizeable gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507344
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Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (scientific) giants? : evidence from chemistry
Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2023
In recent decades, Chinese researchers have become preeminent contributors to the scientific enterprise, as reflected by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential to push forward the global frontier, but mere production...
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