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We develop a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms à la Melitz (2003), where both the government and firms can invest into R&D to improve the country’s technological potential. A higher technological potential raises the average productivity of firms, thus implying lower consumer...
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We discuss the impact of organizational workload on professional service outcomes, such as survival rates in hospitals. The prevailing view in the literature is that service quality deteriorates when organizational workload increases. In contrast, we argue that the relationship between workload...
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important differences between Japanese and US energy firms: lower elasticity of the innovation production function in R …&D expenditure, lower probability of radical innovation, and predominance of dirty technologies in Japan. This may explain our …
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firms and the economic performance of industrial countries. Testing this hypothesis, this paper contrasts innovation and …. Moreover, the likely consequences of promoting R&D differ substantially between industries. -- Sectoral innovation systems …
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effects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions on innovation activities in target firms. The empirical analysis is based on … selection bias, it is found that foreign takeovers have a large negative impact on the propensity to perform innovation … activities and a negative impact on average R&D expenditures in innovative firms. Furthermore, innovation output, measured as the …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between cross-border acquisitions and innovation activities … at the firm level. In contrast to previous studies that analyze the effects on innovation in target firms, this paper … ; innovation …
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We apply a functional data approach for mixture model-based multivariate innovation clustering to identify different … regional innovation portfolios in Europe. Innovation concentration is considered as pattern of specialization among innovation … types. We examine patent registration data and combine them with other innovation and economic data across 225 regions, 13 …
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We conduct a framed laboratory experiment to gain in-depth insights on factors that drive collective research and development efforts among firms located along the automotive value chain. In particular, we employ a public goods experiment and analyze the influence of sequential decision-making...
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use of smart devices and intelligent sensors are positively correlated to eco-innovation and other sustainability …
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This agent-based model contributes to a theory of corporate culture in which company performance and employees’ behaviour result from the interaction between financial incentives, motivational factors and endogenous social norms. Employees’ personal values are the main drivers of behaviour....
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