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Aiming at both low prices and innovation, policy makers and economists have long argued about the optimal intensity of … innovation due to the low appropriability of rents established economic approaches advocate competition to be conducive to … innovation. This reflects the dispute in economics between Schumpeterian and neoclassical theories. Aghion et al. (2005) offered …
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direction of innovation. In particular, developments in the ICT sector have been discussed as a currently dominant source of … understanding of the innovation process have widened the perspective. Essentially, industrial innovation is a process of knowledge … discussed. As several examples of the policies which support innovation reveal, Member States have developed new strategies …
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marketing or innovation. The second taxonomy discriminates between industries according to their employment of skilled labour …
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This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic...
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This paper empirically investigates the potential determinants of business-sector R&D intensity using a panel of OECD countries for the period of 1970-2002 with data measured as five-year year averages. Estimates using a system GMM estimator controlling for endogeneity show a high degree of...
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We test whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a …
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This note revisits the conjecture that the use of broadband internet lowers transaction costs and thereby inflation. Using a macroeconomic panel of OECD countries, it roughly confirms previous findings reported by Yi and Choi (2005) by addressing conceptual and econometric issues.
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We analyse the impact of social capital on the willingness to migrate in 28 post-communist and five western European comparator countries using the Life in Transition Survey. We find substantially lower levels of professional social capital among the older cohorts in post-communist than in the...
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to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per …, exports, or population density. Innovation and foreign ownership appear to be the strongest drivers of multifactor …
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