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Horizontal innovation in the theory of growth and development

Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005

development and fluctuations. In many such applications, a key role is played by complementarities in the process of innovation. …

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Young leading innovators and the EU's R&D intensity gap

Cincera, Michele; Veugelers, Reinhilde - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 22 (2013) 1/2, pp. 177-198

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721937

Structural development accounting

Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...

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Competing engines of growth: Innovation and standardization

Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction of new goods whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are …

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Offshoring and directed technical change

Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …

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Technological change and the wealth of nations

Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

We discuss a unified theory of directed technological change and technology adoption that can shed light on the causes of persistent productivity differences across countries. In our model, new technologies are designed in advanced countries and diffuse endogenously to less developed countries....

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North-south trade and directed technical change

Gancia, Gino - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

In a world where poor countries provide weak protection for intellectual property rights, market integration shifts technical change in favor of rich nations. Through this channel, free trade may amplify international income differences. At the same time, integration with countries where...

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Complementarity between technology make and buy in innovation strategies: Evidence from Belgiam manufacturing firms

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998

This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …

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External technology sources: Embodied or disembodied technology acquisition

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the … technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of the firm's innovation strategy. We take …

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The sensitivity of R&D investments to cash flows : comparing young and old EU and US leading innovators

Cincera, Michele; Ravet, Julien; Veugelers, Reinhilde - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 25 (2016) 3/4, pp. 304-320

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449803