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The Dynamics of the Transfer and Renewal of Patents

Serrano, Carlos J. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

This paper explores a new dataset of transfers of patents recorded at the United States Patent and Trademark Office …. The aim of the paper is twofold. First, a number of patterns are presented. For instance, the probability of a patent …. Second, the paper extends Pakes and Schankerman\\'s patent renewal framework in order to develop a model of the transfer and …

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The Evolution of Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2012

Between 1940 and 2000 there has been a substantial increase of educational attainment in the United States. What caused this trend? We develop a model of human capital accumulation that features a non-degenerate distribution of educational attainment in the population. We use this framework to...

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Vertical educational diversity and innovation performance

Bolli, Thomas; Renold, Ursula; Wörter, Martin - 2015

This paper uses panel data of Swiss firms to analyze the impact of education level diversity in the workforce on …

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Competition and R&D cooperation with universities and competitors

Bolli, Thomas; Woerter, Martin - 2011

This paper analyzes the relationship between competition and R&D cooperation with universities and competitors. Our …

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Firm characteristics and the cyclicality of R&D investments

Arvanitis, Spyros; Woerter, Martin - 2011

Aim of this study is to combine micro-aspects of firm behaviour with macro-aspects of business development and identify market conditions (for example, price competition) and firm characteristics (for example, type of R&D partners) that enable a firm to have a procyclical, anti-cyclical or...

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Openness and innovation - home and export demand effects on manufacturing innovation: Panel data evidence for Ireland and Switzerland

Woerter, Martin; Roper, Stephen - 2008

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 panel data for two small open economies - Ireland and...

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The impact of ICT usage, workplace organisation and human capital on the provision of apprenticeship training. a firm-level analysis based on Swiss panel data

Hollenstein, Heinz; Stucki, Tobias - 2008

Firstly, we investigated the determinants of a) the propensity of Swiss firms to provide apprenticeship training, and b) the intensity of training (measured by the employment share of apprentices). We primarily were interested in the relevance as explanatory factors of the three constituent...

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Inter- and intra-firm diffusion of technology: the example of e-commerce:an analysis based on Swiss firm-level data

Hollenstein, Heinz; Woerter, Martin - 2007

The paper aims at a joint analysis of inter-firm and intra-firm diffusion of technology, taking as an example E …

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From knowledge to added value: A comparative, panel-data analysis of the innovation value chain in Irish and Swiss manufacturing firms

Roper, Stephen; Arvanitis, Spyros - 2009

The innovation value chain (IVC) divides the innovation process into three separate links or activities: knowledge gathering, knowledge transformation and knowledge exploitation. Here, we report a comparative panel data analysis of the IVC in Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small,...

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Inter and intra firm diffusion of ICT in the United Kingdom (UK) and Switzerland (CH): An internationally comparative study based on firm-level data

Battisti, Giuliana; Hollenstein, Heinz; Stoneman, Paul; … - 2005

This paper attempts to at least partially redress a paucity of current literature on the joint analysis of inter and …

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