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Firm size, sectors and countries as sources of variety in innovation
Evangelista, Rinaldo; Mastrostefano, Valeria - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 15 (2006) 3, pp. 247-270
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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Firm Size And Capabilities, Regional Agglomeration, And The Adoption Of New Technology
Kelley, Maryellen; Helper, Susan - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 8 (1999) 1-2, pp. 79-103
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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From less promising to green? Technological opportunities and their role in (green) ICT innovation
Cecere, Grazia; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 28 (2019) 1, pp. 45-63
This article aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test whether firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less likely to be innovative … Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic count data estimation models applying General …
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ICT and resilience in times of crisis: evidence from cross-country micro moments data
Bertschek, Irene; Polder, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 28 (2019) 8, pp. 759-774
ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICT-intensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more...
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Innovation Platforms and the Governance of Knowledge : Evidence from Italy and the UK
Consoli, Davide - 2014
Innovation is a collective process that entails the coordination of distributed knowledge across diverse organizations …. Technology infrastructures provide innovation systems with governance mechanisms to create and sustain complementarities across … otherwise dispersed competences. The paper presents innovation platforms as a specific case of technology infrastructure …
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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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Innovation Systems, Institutional Change And The New Knowledge Market: Implications For Third World Agricultural Development
Clark, Norman - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 11 (2002) 4-5, pp. 353-368
of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples …
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University Versus Corporate Patents: A Window On The Basicness Of Invention
Trajtenberg, Manuel; Henderson, Rebecca; Jaffe, Adam - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 5 (1997) 1, pp. 19-50
This paper is an attempt to quantify key aspects of innovations, 'basicness' and appropriability, and explore the linkages between them. We rely on detailed patent data. particularly on patent citations, thus awarding the proposed measures a very wide coverage. Relying on the prior that...
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The Economic Dynamics Of Software: Three Competing Business Models Exemplified Through Microsoft, Netscape And Linux
Mckelvey, Maureen - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 10 (2001) 2-3, pp. 199-236
This article proposes three ideal business models to analyze innovation in knowledge-intensive goods and services. The … innovation, e.g. creation of novelty and of economic value. Defining the models this way leads to a discussion of the advantages …
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