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We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …

' signaling-driven investment, despite the risk of buying a bad innovation. We finally show at what point the presence of active … venture capitalists increases the incentives for entrepreneurial innovations. -- venture capitalists ; innovation …

sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward … ; Innovation ; Venture Capital …

Recent studies in the tradition of Schmookler have re-emphasised the potential role of demand in stimulating innovation …. Here, we reconsider the role of "home" and "export" market demand in stimulating manufacturing innovation using comparable … innovation production functions using panel data estimators over the sample period 1994 to 2005. For a range of innovation …

The innovation value chain (IVC) divides the innovation process into three separate links or activities: knowledge … Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small, very open and depend significantly on innovation to maintain competitive … advantage. In recent years, however, R&D and innovation growth in Ireland has been markedly stronger than that in Switzerland …

growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation … project and on their mode of commercializing the innovation (market entry versus sale). Limited loss offset provisions in the … fundamental policy trade-off between the declared goals of promoting employment and innovation in small, entrepreneurial firms …

innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across … regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation …, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, R&D intensity, and product innovation …

This paper analyzes the impact of technological diversity on innovation inputs and success using Swiss firm-level panel … applications as suggested by the literature. However, since patent applications reflect an intermediate innovation input rather …

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