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Obtaining indicators on innovation activities of firms has been a challenge in economic research for a long time. The most frequently used indicators - R&D expenditure and patents - provide an incomplete picture as they represent inputs and throughputs in the innovation process. Output...
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Until today, the question of how digitalisation and, in particular, individual digital technologies affect productivity is still the subject of controversial debate. Using administrative firm-level data provided by the Dutch and the German statistical offices, we investigate the economic...
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Big Data (BD) is becoming widely available and manageable. This raises the question of whether Big Data Analytics (BDA) in companies leads to better decision-making andhence performance. Based on a large, representative set of start-ups in Germany, we study the adoption of BDA among small and...
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-to-head competition with the seller, regardless of the level of horizontal differentiation. Mandating data-sharing, which allows the … competition in the downstream market. We then show that banning the hybrid business model and forbidding the use of data for price … competition comes from the platform's business model rather than from its information advantage. …
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How does antitrust enforcement against patent-based monopolies affect innovation? I address this question by empirically studying the US antitrust case against Xerox, the monopolist in the market for plain-paper copiers. In 1975, Xerox was ordered to license all its copier-technology patents in...
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on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light …
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correlated with its quality. Open source may weaken or invert this relationship by giving Bertrand competition losers a second … chance. It however follows that though open source leads to more competition and more standardization, the chosen standard …
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, comprehensive, accurate, and timely digital contact tracing serves as a decisive measure in curbing viral transmission. Such a strategy integrates corporate innovation, government decision-making, citizen participation, and community coordination with big data...
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