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This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....
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dispensing equipment, the immediate predecessor to the ATM. At the simplest level, at least four separate instance of innovation … than an understanding of the process of innovation itself and how these competing families developed into the modern … conception of an ATM. Our research supports the view of user-driven innovation as surviving business records and oral histories …
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Domestic Innovation (GDI) to quantify innovations in OECD countries. It will supplement universal measures such as the Gross …
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Both anecdotal evidence and the innovation literature indicate that important advances in energy technology have made …
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energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy …
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We look at the effect of the US Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial regulation on industrial innovation. Our theoretical …
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This paper examines the direction of causality between Venture Capital (VC) and innovation (proxied by patents) in … suggesting that, in Europe, innovation seems to create a demand for VC and not VC a supply of innovation. In this sense …
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The aim of this paper is to study empirically the patenting propensity at the European regional level. To do that we use the OECD-REGPAT dataset, that includes patent applications made by European inventors and applicants to EPO in the time-span 1978-2011. Explanatory variables on R&D and human...
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Innovation plays a crucial role in determining today’s economic growth patterns. But what enables some countries to … significant negative influence. Governmental funding and research performance of universities encourage more innovation at the …
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In this paper the results of testing the causal interdependence between technological progress and GDP in Poland are presented. The results obtained for quarterly data from the period Q1 2000 – Q4 2009 indicate causality running from technological progress to GDP in Poland. In addition,...
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