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innovation in industry across Europe. The results presented in the empirical section of this paper are based on a unique database … (SIEPI) containing data drawn by the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS2) for 10 countries, 22 manufacturing sectors and … and explore in detail the differences in innovation processes both within and across European countries and manufacturing …
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The literature on agglomeration economies suggests that, in addition to firm-specific attributes, the local geographic context conditions the expected profitability of technology adoption. All rheories of technology diffusion assumc that inter-firm learning is the outcome of contact with prior...
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relationship between job creation and innovation, as measured by R&D investments, in Norwegian manufacturing. We compare job …
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The aim of the article is to relate the formation of influence networks to the coexistence of technologies in the long run. In the spirit of Plouraboue et al. (1998), we postulate that potential adopters of a technology are situated in a social network. In our model, initial relations are partly...
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The issue of optimal patent protection is of great importance since the inclusion of the trade related aspects of intellectual property rights accord into the purview of the World Trade Organization. Hitherto, the literature has focused on the optimal patent regimes from the perspective of...
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This paper sets out some microfoundations for Schumpeter' s theory of innovation-driven business cycles. A model is … developed to represent these cycles, which incorporates two of the three main elements of Schumpeter's analysis: innovation and …
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This papcr uses a new firm panel data set to explore the relationship between R&D and productivity in German manufacturing firms for the period from 1979 to 1989. The results confirm the view that K&D is an important determinant of productivity growth. In the cross-section, the elasticity of...
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Localized technological change is the endogenous outcome of the interplay between substitution costs. Switching costs and learning processes. New technologies are introduced when market pressures induce firms to change the levels of their inputs and their techniques. The dynamics ol localized...
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innovation and competition. The model is built on the assumption of a product market and has not yet been tested on the service … for exporting service-sector firms. A further breakdown of innovation expenditures shows that the inverse U-shaped pattern … competitors. The behavior of large firms can partly be due to their superior capacity to handle innovation projects internally …
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This paper presents characteristics of firms that employ advanced manufacturing technology (AMT), explores the pattern of adoption of such technology, and traces the effects of adoption on the evolution of employment and productivity. The study uses linked firm-level data on production, factor...
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