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Economists have a well-developed theory of value but the theory of why people hold the values they do is rudimentary at best. In spite of the fact that it is common to argue that values are important, most work on values is normative and the positive theory of values is relatively under-...
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We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...
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firm's products. Our econometric analysis uses data of two waves of the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS …
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Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … sectoral pattern of innovation and the distance of a country's industry to the global technological frontier. We explore these … dimensions based on longitudinal industry-level data from the Community Innovation Survey. We find that the demand on markets for …
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importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …
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This paper considers the effect of different firm leadership on the innovative performance of firms from seven EU countries. We investigate whether owner-led or manager-led firms achieve a larger share of their turnover with product innovations. Economic theory does not propose clear answers to...
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intergenerational mobility and innovation, and find robust evidence that higher mobility is associated with increased innovation. …
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