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This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
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knowledge of new inventors effect the performance of regional innovation systems (RIS). The results suggest that the knowledge …
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This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We … incentive for private innovation activities. In contrast to the standard Schumpeterian growth framework, we account for industry … heterogeneity in terms of innovation potential. This extension allows to bring government demand policy within the realm of the …
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; innovation ; knowledge spillovers …
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literature. We discuss if lock-ins are really inescapable, especially when innovation is concerned. Also, we address the question …
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Human resources are a key factor for firm success, particularly nowadays when most industrial economies face an increasing shortage of qualified labour. With their pooled labour markets, regional clusters have been shown to be a preferable location for firms in order to satisfy their demand for...
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In the past decades the role of profit sharing schemes (PSS) as a way to foster innovation in a principal-agent context …, and more generally of innovation in economic growth, have been widely acknowledged and studied. However, surprisingly … innovation in a pure knowledge economy: a "patent box" incentive and a tax incentive on compensation earned by agents as PSS. A …
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This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with … intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge …
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In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus...
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The article serves as an introduction to the empirical analysis of innovation or knowledge networks based on patent … data with a particular focus on regional networks. I provide a review of the literature of innovation networks and how it … connects to systemic approaches within the field of innovation studies. The SNA methodology is introduced by performing a …
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