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R&D and productivity growth: Evidence from the UK
Kafouros, Mario - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 14 (2005) 6, pp. 479-497
Although the econometric evaluation of R&D has attracted wide interest in many countries, it has not attracted much in the UK. The main objective of this paper is to fill this void, i.e., to estimate the impact of R&D on productivity growth of the UK manufacturing sector. However, there are some...
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Public Energy R&D Priorities in Small EU Member States: Evidence from Denmark, Austria and the Netherlands
Scordato, Lisa - In: Journal of the Knowledge Economy 1 (2010) 3, pp. 202-218
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MANAGING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT: AN OPTIMAL ALLOCATION BETWEEN R&D AND PROTOTYPE FUNDING
Rothwell, G. - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 16 (2007) 6, pp. 419-432
The research and development manager allocates R&D funds to maximize the expected discounted net value of the R&D programme. Because public R&D managers do not have the same market discipline (or rewards) as private R&D managers, public R&D managers require a methodology for maximizing the...
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R&D, public innovation policy, and productivity: The case of danish manufacturing
Sørensen, Anders; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Marcusson, Mats - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 12 (2003) 2, pp. 163-178
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between private R&D, public innovation support transferred … innovation support has a positive and significant effect on private R&D expenditures with an estimated elasticity of 0 ….062. Second, the indirect effect on productivity from public innovation support is reflected in a positive point estimate which is …
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Morphogenesis Of Social Networks And Coexistence Of Technologies
Dé, Fré; Deroian, Ric - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 10 (2001) 6, pp. 427-448
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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Adoption Of Advanced Manufacturing Technology And Firm Performance In The Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric; Leeuwen, George Van; Nieuwenhuijsen, Henry - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 6 (1998) 4, pp. 291-312
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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Innovation Dynamics And Endogenous Adjustment In The Telecommunications Industry
Hicks, Donald - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 10 (2001) 2-3, pp. 141-168
Patterned innovation dynamics - investment-mix shifts and inter-organizational alliances -are examined for their roles … telecom equipment suppliers. Comparative analyses suggest that such innovation investment strategies have been of less benefit … to telecom firms than to producers in nearly any other major manufacturing sector. Trends in organizational innovation in …
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The New Economics Of Innovation, Spillovers And Agglomeration: Areview Of Empirical Studies
Feldman, Maryann - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 8 (1999) 1-2, pp. 5-25
This paper reviews recent empirical studies of location and innovation. The objective is to highlight the questions … separate strains in thc empirical spillover literature: innovation production functions; the linkages between patent citations …
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Technological Innovation, Demand Structure, Intra-Industry Trade And Hierarchy Of Economies-A Three Dimensional Presentation
Mardas, Dimitri - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 4 (1995) 1, pp. 61-66
This paper aims to present an alternative version on countries' hierarchy, based on Posner's technological gap, on Linder's concept of demand structure and on intra-industry trade. These theoretical developments based in the same time on supply and demand can provide a more complete perspective...
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Innovation, Skilled Labour, Technology And Performance In Israeli Industrial Firms
Regev, Haim - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 5 (1998) 2-4, pp. 301-324
A technology index based on R&D, skilled labour and capital vintage was developed and used to characterise industrial firms by technology level, facilitating the analysis of relationships between technology and economic performance at the firm level. The results show that technology-intensive...
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