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rather than training workers to enhance innovation performance. …
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This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network …
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firms because it lowers the probability they win the innovation contest for that project; however, the investment of a firm …
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Induced innovation and associated issues of path dependence and inertia are of critical importance in the transition to …
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-gas emitting systems, such as inertia, induced innovation, and pathdependency, by formulating a compact and analytically tractable …
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We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existingliterature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses the model of quality improvements todescribe...
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The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not … this controversy using a model of regional growth. The model also deals with the impact of local competition on innovation …
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-productivity firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model … identifies the impact of innovation, imitation and R&D costs on firms' R&D decisions. R&D costs gained importance in Switzerland … prioritize enhancing innovation and imitation success over cost reduction to boost productivity growth. …
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This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product market. We show that a sufficient condition for...
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rival market. We show that this strategic effect dominates the usual "innovation for buyout effect" when the entrant …'s bargaining power is below a threshold. Allowing for acquisitions may improve the direction of innovation of each of the players …
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