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Innovation dynamics in space : local actors and local factors

Kangasharju, Aki; Nijkamp, Peter - 1997

several firm-specific effects. First, these phases influence innovativeness and thus profit levels, output and employment of …. Furthermore, this paper also aims to model effects of relevant local factors on innovativeness bymeans of logit analysis … impacts on innovativeness of firms.Accordingly, the evolution of the importance of local factors for innovations is also found …

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The breakdown of morale

Vikander, Nick - 2009

encourage cooperation may actually hurt morale, by convincing opportunistic team members to imitate and later take advantage of …

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Hybrid R&D

Goyal, Sanjeev; Konovalov, Alexander; Moraga-González, … - 2003

We develop a model of R&D collaboration in which individual firms carry out in-house research on core activities and undertake bilateral joint projects on non-core activities with other firms. We develop conditions on the profit functions of the firm under which R&D investments in different...

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How universal is behavior?

Brandts, Jordi; Saijō, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2002

This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...

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Stable networks

Dutta, Bhaskar; Mutuswami, Suresh - 1997

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Cooperation in an overlapping generations experiment

Offerman, Theo; Potters, Jan; Verbon, Harry A. A. - 1998

. Cooperation in such games can be sustained as aNash equilibrium. Besides the efficient cooperative equilibrium there is alsothe … inefficient non-cooperative equilibrium. This paper investigatesexperimentally whether cooperation actually occurs in a simple …

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The role and evolution of central authorities

Frijters, Paul; Tieman, Alexander F. - 1999

In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means ofdirect coordination or the enforcement of re …

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Imitation of cooperation in prisoner's dilemma games with some local interaction

Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2000

, the less likely cooperation will be. …

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Conditional cooperation and voluntary contributions to public goods

Keser, Claudia; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000

We compare a partners condition where the same small group of subjects plays arepeated public good game to astrangers condition where subjects play this game in changing group formations.Subjects in the partners conditioncontribute from the first period on significantly more to the public good...

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The design of (de)centralized punishment institutions for sustaining co-operation

Kosfeld, Michael; Riedl, Arno - 2004

cooperation and sanctioning', 2007, KritV - Kritische Vierteljahresschrift fur Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft, 90, 1-2, 140 … can increase the cooperation level of individuals in the group. …

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