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their inward looking or exploitationʺ attitude in R&D and innovation. We argue that because of sunk costs and learning …. Among other things, this suggests that explorationʺ, which leads to the opening of new innovation trajectories, requires not …
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-organisational configurations of these factories confirm that this wave of technological innovation is far from leading to total automation or the …
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"Learning-by-doing" is usually identified as a process whereby performance increases with experience in production. The paper investigates different patterns of "learning by doing", studying learning curves at product level. Cost-quantity relationships differ a lot across products belonging to...
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This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital development" very broadly. We begin with the observation that...
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This paper discusses, first, the properties of scientific and technological knowledge and the institutions supporting its generation and its economic applications. The evidence continues to support the broad interpretation which we call the ʺStanford-Yale-Sussexʺ synthesis. Second, such...
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Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across sectors would enable emerging countries to...
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appear to be vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between small and large firms …, and between the firms that operate in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in small firms benefits from the … incentive for innovation among the sampled companies seems to be the ownership of a firm’s stocks by employees and/or managers …
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except managers experience job losses that are mainly driven by the introduction of process innovation. In services, a … hold. During the downswing most established links break down; in particular, product innovation loses its positive impact …
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de-linked the performance of firms on the financial markets from the determinants of firm-level growth and innovation …, financialization has contributed to compress and somewhat degrade the specific properties of the finance-innovation nexus of both …
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Innovation, and more specifically national similarities in relation to (a) trade and economic size and (b) sectoral … ; National Systems of Innovation ; Complementarity public and private R&D ; Spatial interactions ; EU countries ; spatial dynamic …
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