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A Supply Side Story for a Threshold Model: Endogenous Growth of the Free and Open Source Community
Rullani, Francesco; Zirulia, Lorenzo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011
: Science and Technology. This paper examines a recent institutional form that seems not to resemble either of the other two … technology. Using free and open source software as an example, we develop a model where this phenomenon is confronted with … Technology with respect to its ability to attract researchers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364570
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Services Innovation and Economic Performance An analysis at the firm level
Lopes, Luísa Ferreira; Godinho, Manuel Mira - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005
We present a model that links innovation effort to economic performance, along the lines of the Crépon et al (1998) model. However, in contrast to Crépon et al, that analyze R&D intensive manufacturing sectors, the present application examines the relationship between innovation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627345
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A Technology-gap Approach to Cumulative Growth -Toward an Integrated Model Empirical Evidence for Spain, 1960-1997
Castellacci, Fulvio - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001
technology-gap approach to economic growth. . The main findings of the first three sections are: an higher rate of diffusion or … regimes are theoretically possible, but only some of them lead to a cumulative-technology-gap led growth. As a first … internal consumption, in the first period (1960-1975), to a technology-gap growth regime, in the second period (1982 …
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A Transaction cost Perspective on the Influence of Standards on Product Development Examples from the Fruit and Vegetable Market
Foss, Kirsten - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996
In this paper I argue that quality standards, products standards, and quality classes influence the priority that firms give to different product developments. These standards may be viewed as institutions in the sense of shared rules of behavior or codes. They have become shared because there...
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The Social Dimension of the Learning Economy
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996
This paper is a slightly revised version of Bengt-Åke Lundvall's Inaugural Lecture, the 10th of November at Department for Business Studies, Aalborg University. The general message is that the growing frequency of so-called paradoxes in economic theory and of unsolved socioeconomic problems...
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Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-Up Problem
Pollock, Rufus - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
With cumulative innovation and imperfect information about the value of innovations, intellectual property rights can result in hold-up and therefore it may be better not to have them. Extending the basic cumulative innovation model to include 'sampling' by second-stage firms, we find that the...
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My Precious. The Role of Appropriability Strategies in Shaping Innovative Performance
Laursen, Keld; Salter, Ammon - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005
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Distance to Frontier and Appropriate Business Strategy
Coad, Alex - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008
This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm’s distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...
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Inventors and the Geographical Breadth of Knowledge Soillovers
Giuri, Paola; Mariani, Myriam - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008
This paper studies the geographical breadth of knowledge spillovers. Previous research suggests that knowledge spillovers benefit from geographical proximity in technologically active and rich regions more than elsewhere. An alternative view explains the geographical breadth of knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260602
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Innovation, Learning Organizations and Industrial Relations
Nielsen, Peter; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003
Innovation may be seen as a process of knowledge creation and the speed and direction of knowledge creation reflects the organizational set-up of the firm as well as its investments in R&D and training. Establishing ‘a learning organization’ where horizontal interaction and communication...
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