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Does Economic Growth Matter? Technology-Push, Demand-Pull and Endogenous Drivers of Innovation in the Renewable Energy Industry

Aflaki, Sam; Masini, Andrea - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2014

The paper aims to contribute to the longstanding technology-push vs. demand-pull debate and to the literature on renewable energy diffusion and renewable energy policy assessment. The authors argue that in addition to the traditional push-pull dichotomy, the drivers of technological change must...

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Political Activism and Firm Innovation

Ovtchinnikov, Alexei; Reza, Syed - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2014

Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on Congressional committees with jurisdictional authority over the firms’ industries and politicians who join those committees innovate more. The authors employ instrumental variables...

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Entrepreneurial Spawning and Firm Characteristics

Mella-Barral, Pierre; Habib, Michel A.; Hege, Ulrich - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2013

We analyze the implications of the decision to spawn or to retain a new product for the nature and evolution of the firm. In our model, a new product is spawned if the fit between the product and its parent firm organization is not adequate. We focus on the impact of the firm's history of...

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Stratégie de rupture basée sur des innovations radicales : Etude du cas de l'entreprise Salomon à la lumière de ses compétences et capacités organisationnelles

MOINGEON, Bertrand; METAIS, Emmanuel - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 1999

innovations. Focusing on the study of internal resources leads to an investigation into Salomon's learning capabilities. …

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Free trade and protection of intellectual property rights : can we have one without the other?

OLIVIER, Jacques; GOH, Ai-Ting - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2001

This paper is concerned with the interaction between trade policies and the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). In particular, it investigates the welfare implications of an international agreement on one or both policy instruments. The main insights are first, that both sets of...

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Privatization Process and Corporate Entrepreneurship in Former Monopolies: A Model for Developed Countries

QUELIN, Bertrand V.; BONARDI, Jean-Philippe - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 1999

This paper considers the impact of privatization on corporate entrepreneurship. The proposed model illustrates how a firm's capacity to implement internal changes is influenced by three factors: credibility of the privatization process, speed of the process, and the new regulatory environment....

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Knowledge Diffusion, Supplier's Technological Effort and Technology Transfer via Vertical Relationships

GOH, Ai-Ting - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2004

This paper studies the effect of knowledge diffusion on the incentives for developed countries(DC)' firms to undertake costly technology transfer to their developing countries(LDC)' suppliers whose cost of production varies inversely with their technological effort. When the incumbent supplier's...

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Can Innovation Help U.S. Manufacturing Firms Escape Import Competition from China?

Hombert, Johan; Matray, Adrien - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2014

The authors study whether R&D-intensive firms are more resilient to trade shocks. They correct for the endogeneity of R&D using tax-induced changes to the cost of R&D. On average across US manufacturing firms, rising imports from China lead to slower sales growth and lower profitability. These...

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state-observation sampling and the econometrics of learning models

Calvet, Laurent-Emmanuel; Czellar, Veronika - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2011

Author's abstract. In nonlinear state-space models, sequential learning about the hidden state can proceed by particle … economics. In this paper, we make two contributions to the learning literature. First, we introduce a new filtering method, the … performance of these techniques on an asset pricing model with investor learning applied to over 80 years of daily equity returns. …

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Uncovering Simons’ structuralism with cognitive theories: Interactive control systems and processes of learning

Dambrin, Claire; Löning, Hélène - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2008

In this paper, the authors draw from theories of cognition, in particular Piaget (1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1949, 1966, 1968) and provide some content analysis of Simons’ writings (1987, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2000), based on four categories, which stem from our interpretation of Piaget’s...

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