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Public funding and corporate innovation
Beck, Mathias; Junge, Martin; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2017
We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...
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Determinants and policy simulation of firms cooperation in innovation
Heshmati, Almas; Lenz-Cesar, Flávio - 2013
This research introduces an agent-based simulation model representing the dynamic processes of cooperative R&D in the manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 and captured in a multivariate probit...
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Long-run effects of public-private research joint ventures : the case of the Danish innovation consortia support scheme
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan Moritz - 2011
Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support scheme that has been maintained by the Danish government since 1995. To cope with identification...
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A firm scientific community: industry participation and knowledge diffusion
Baruffaldi, Stefano Horst; Poege, Felix - 2020
We study the diffusion of knowledge from scientists to firms within scientific communities. We build on a unique dataset on conference proceedings as "paper trail" of almost all relevant conference series in computer science since 1996. More than 5000 firms appear as conference sponsors or as...
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Why has science become an old man's game?
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras - 2023
We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
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How do young innovative companies innovate?
Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2009
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisition of external technology in embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are tested on a sample of innovative...
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Distance to the efficiency frontier and FDI spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this negative spilloverʺ effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …
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Educational diversity and knowledge transfers via inter-firm labor mobility
Marino, Marianna; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario - 2014
This article contributes to the literature on knowledge transfer via labor mobility by providing new evidence regarding the role of educational diversity in knowledge transfer. In tracing worker flows between firms in Denmark over the period 1995-2005, we find that knowledge carried by workers...
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The third mission in the academic profession : empirical insights into academic identities
Püttmann, Vitus; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2022
In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the extra-academic environment in the context of academics' work. Insights into the status of this...
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Technological capabilities and patterns of cooperation of UK firms : a regional investigation
Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2009
This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community...
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