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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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Research, Innovation And Productivity: An Econometric Analysis At The Firm Level
Crepon, Bruno; Duguet, Emmanuel; Mairesse, Jacques - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 7 (1998) 2, pp. 115-158
This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at the firm level. We introduce three new … features: (i) A structural model that explains productivity by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment … of firms engage in research activities and/or apply for patents; productivity, innovation and research are endogenously …
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Inputs And Outputs Of Innovative Activities In Italian Manufacturing
Sterlacchini, Alessandro - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 7 (1998) 4, pp. 323-344
between innovation inputs and outputs. The regression analysis shows that the sales due to process innovations are … employment of innovation inputs is necessary. …
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R&D Capability and Market Structure
Takahashi, Shuji - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 8 (1999) 4, pp. 355-365
final technology. This myopic behavior may reduce both welfare and the speed of innovation. …
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R&D-Competition Between Vertical Corporate Networks: Market Structure and Strategic R&D-Spillovers
Becker, Wolfgang; Peters, Jurgen - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 6 (1998) 1, pp. 51-72
the innovation theory of Industrial Organization. In a two-industry model we formalize the effects of R …
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Technology Strategy And Product Diversity
Yin, Xiangkang - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 7 (1998) 2, pp. 159-175
This paper considers a three-stage game of a differentiated oligopoly: firms first make their entry decisions, then they choose production technologies and in the third stage of the game they decide product prices. The technology choice can be understood as selecting one from a pool of those...
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FIRMS GROWTH, SIZE AND INNOVATION AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ITALIAN MANUFACTURING SECTOR
Morone, Piergiuseppe; Testa, Giuseppina - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 17 (2008) 4, pp. 311-329
, turnover growth is positively associated with firms' size, process innovation, product innovation and organisational changes …. In contrast, marketing innovation does not considerably affect Italian SMEs growth. When restricting our focus to a sub …, among innovative firms, process innovation and organisational changes are, by far, the most influential innovating …
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Do Inter-Sectoral Linkages Matter for International Export Specialisation?
Laursen, Keld; Drejer, Ina - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 8 (1999) 4, pp. 311-330
. However,given that the sources of innovation (inducement mechanisms) differ between firms according to principal sector of … specialisation patterns. However, the importance differs according to the mode of innovation in each type of sector. …
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Gross Investment And Technological Change
Stoneman, Paul; Kwon, Myung-Joong - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 7 (1998) 3, pp. 221-243
The impact of technological change upon gross investment has been relatively ignored. Building upon the foundations of the analysis of technological diffusion, an empirical model of gross investment is constructed that takes due account of technological change. This model is then tested upon a...
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A Closed Economy Model of Horizontal and Vertical Product Differentiation: The Case of Innovation in Biotechnology
Acharya, Rohini; Ziesemer, Thomas - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 4 (1996) 3, pp. 245-264
In endogenous growth theory models have either increasing or constant ranges of product variety. Developments in modem biotechnology however show cases of increasing, decreasing or constant ranges of product variants. We present a simple endogenous growth model allowing for all of these three...
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