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innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid integration of intermittent … innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the need for complementary innovation in both physical …
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environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and … workplace safety. -- environmental policy ; market fragmentation ; innovation : technology transfer …
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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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innovation market. If employment protection is introduced, firms’ willingness to pay for product or process innovations increases …. This shifts economic activity towards firms specializing in process and product innovation and triggers entry of new start …
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Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of "innovating-by-doing," whereby ideas come … to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners' ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model ….S. Medicare program on medical equipment innovation. Our model’s structure allows us to infer the Medicare program's aggregate …
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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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To what extent does a tax credit affect firms ́R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms ́R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...
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-level information on mergers, production, and innovation in the dynamic random access memory semiconductor market from 1985 to 2004. Our …
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Empirical evidence suggests that positive externalities from R&D exceed negative ones. According to conventional wisdom, this calls for R&D subsidies. This paper develops a quality-ladder growth model with overlapping generations which evaluates the positive and normative implications of R&D...
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), and Cerulli (2012)). Based on a comprehensive dataset on the static random access memory industry, we find that firms …
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