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Who is afraid of pirates? An experiment on the deterrence of innovation by imitation

Engel, Christoph; Kleine, Marco - In: Research Policy 44 (2015) 1, pp. 20-33

In the policy debate, intellectual property is often justified by what seems to be a straightforward argument: if innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now, in most industries and for most potential users,...

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Scientific knowledge dynamics and relatedness in biotech cities

Boschma, Ron; Heimeriks, Gaston; Balland, Pierre-Alexandre - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 1, pp. 107-114

This paper investigates the impact of scientific relatedness on knowledge dynamics in biotech at the city level during the period 1989–2008. We assess the extent to which the emergence of new research topics and the disappearance of existing topics in cities are dependent on their degree of...

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Do firms face a trade-off between the quantity and the quality of their inventions?

de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 5, pp. 1072-1079

This paper presents evidence that firms face a trade-off between the quantity and the quality of their research output. The econometric analysis uses survey data on patent applicants at the European Patent Office and addresses the identification problem caused by differences in firms’...

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Rapid improvements with no commercial production: How do the improvements occur?

Funk, Jeffrey L.; Magee, Christopher L. - In: Research Policy 44 (2015) 3, pp. 777-788

production, this paper explores cost and performance improvements from a new perspective. The results demonstrate that learning … use them to extend models of learning and invention. These mechanisms can also apply during post-commercial time periods …-based learning in a variety of technologies. …

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A quasi-experimental evaluation of learning in a stakeholder dialogue on bio-energy

Cuppen, Eefje - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 3, pp. 624-637

participation. A stakeholder dialogue should enhance learning about a problem and its potential solutions. However, not in any form … evaluated in terms of learning. This paper suggests three criteria for the evaluation of learning in stakeholder dialogue: (1 … to analyse to what extent learning took place in a stakeholder dialogue on energy options from biomass in the Netherlands …

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