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This case study aims to provide a better understanding of the necessity for regulation in the market for … pharmaceuticals and to reveal the impacts of parallel trades in the European Union and how they may affect markets in the future. The … pharmaceuticals. Consequently, the price gap and other EU-specific factors have created a great environment for parallel trades. The …
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position of the US as a locus of innovation in pharmaceuticals has increased over the past decade compared to Europe. All in … European countries. As a whole, Europe is lagging behind in its ability to generate, organise, and sustain innovation processes … in pharmaceuticals: 1) The size and the structure of the biomedical education and research systems; 2) Some basic …
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In this paper we discuss two propositions: the supply and demand of knowledge, and network externalities. We outline the characteristics that distinguish knowledge-intensive industries from the general run of manufacturing and service businesses. Knowledge intensity and knowledge specialisation...
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chapter in conjunction with Chapter 19, which deals with knowledge, information and innovation. In this chapter, we are …
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We look at the effect of the US Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial regulation on industrial innovation. Our theoretical …
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We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP charges for prioritization on a non-discriminatory basis. We find that Quality of Service tiering may be more efficient in the short run, because it better allocates the existing...
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potential determinants of innovation; and (ii) analysing the effects of governance and regulation on innovation in conjunction … Greenwich in September 2011 and will be published as an edited book titled Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Theory and …We introduce new studies that argue in favour of: (i) according a central role to governance and regulation as …
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We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP charges for prioritization on a non-discriminatory basis. We find that Quality of Service tiering may be more efficient in the short run, because it better allocates the existing...
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This paper develops a growth model to provide a theoretical explanation of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). Paper explains how EKC is shaped with economic development for a given technology. The EKC result arises in two ways – it can be observed from a single technology that matures and...
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answer this question, the paper focuses on the problem of investment and innovation in an ex ante regulated sector. Relying … on existing literature, we argue that ex ante regulation could represent a danger for the long-term development of the … infrastructures. We also argue that ex ante regulation is distorting investment itself: incremental investment is privileged as …
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