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This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...
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One of the most interesting indicators to show the change in the socio-economic role of universities in the last several decades has been the use of university patenting. However except some individual studies in European countries (e.g. Finland, Norway, Belgium, Italy, Germany and France) there...
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behind the Park as well as the effects of its operation. The author also describes the role of innovation as the main …
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city of Hotelling’s model when firms have asymmetric pre-innovation marginal costs of production and compete in prices. We …-drastic innovations. We find that when the innovative firm is efficient compared to the licensee at the pre-innovation stage then the …, this is not true when the innovative firm is inefficient in the pre-innovation stage compared to the licensee. To that end …
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Recent studies in the innovation literature reveal that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) promotes the innovation … shed light on the national innovation activities and anti-corruption programs. …
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This paper investigates the welfare effects of international transfers of environmental technologies in open economies with international oligopoly and transboundary pollution, and shows that policy differentiation between the donor and recipient countries and/or product differentiation between...
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An estimated 85% of Afghanistan’s population lives in rural areas, most of which are resource poor farmers whose livelihoods depend on agriculture and livestock in agro-pastoral or crop-livestock systems. Agriculture – including the processing of agricultural and livestock products --...
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Oblivious to the anger and outrage expressed throughout the world after the methyl isocyanate leak in December 1984, the continued storage of MIC at the parent West Virginia plant until 2011, despite several accidents, indicates the limited effect of public safety concerns on corporate strategy....
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Why did the Japanese economy stagnate before World War II, how did it achieve rapid economic growth after the war, and why did it stagnate again after the 1970s? To answer these questions, I developed a two-country trade model with technology transfer, where rms in the two countries compete in a...
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This paper studies and compares licensing regimes of a cost reducing innovation in a two dimensional square city where … I find that royalties licensing is always better than fixed fee licensing independently of the size of the innovation … better for a non drastic innovation. …
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