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Many western industrialized countries face strong budgetary pressures due to the aging of the baby boom generations and the general trends toward earlier ages of retirement. We use the American PSID and the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to explain differences in prevalence and...
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operate as well as concentration in the agricultural biotechnology industry also emerged due to intellectual property rights …
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The search for "growth-oriented adjustment programs" reflects a widespread malaise concerning IMF stabilization programs in countries suffering from external debt crises. A new orthodoxy is emerging from this search, which links recovery in the debtor countries to a shift to "outward-oriented"...
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, such as intellectual human capital, can predict where and when biotechnology enterprises emerge and agglomerate. Density … more conjectural than empirically tenable. We argue and demonstrate for biotechnology that an alternative model based on … essentially uncorrelated with the panel data on biotechnology entry by year and region while the combined model has correlation …
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biotechnology enterprises: the number of products in development, the number of products on the market, and changes in employment …. The `star' concept which Zucker, Darby, and Brewer (1994) demonstrated was important for birth of U.S. biotechnology …
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In this paper, we examine the determinants of control rights in technology strategic alliances between biotechnology … firms and pharmaceutical corporations, as well as with other biotechnology firms. We undertake three clinical studies and an …
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The local academic science base plays a dominant role in determining where and when biotechnology is adopted by … pharmaceutical business -- biotechnology's most important application -- the performance enhancement associated with this … biotechnology, with the latter playing a somewhat larger role. De nova entry was determined similarly as if entry and organizational …
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We analyze how variations in contractibility affect the design of contracts in the context of biotechnology research … agreements. A major concern of firms financing biotechnology research is that the R&D firms might use the funding to subsidize … maintaining broad property rights to the terminated project. The option right induces the biotechnology firm researchers not to …
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Using data on over 900 firms for the period 1988-2000, we estimate the effect on phase-specific biotech and pharmaceutical R&D success rates of a firm's overall experience, its experience in the relevant therapeutic category; the diversification of its experience, and alliances with large and...
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which are threatened by persistent low performance. While all incumbent firms lagged the dedicated new biotechnology firms …
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