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Multinational Firms and Innovation: The Role of R&D Collaboration, Markets and Ownership
Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
innovation. In doing so, we classify a Swedish sample of 1,249 multinational enterprises, MNEs, on the basis of their main market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190545
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Multinationals in the Knowledge Economy - a case study of AstraZeneca in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje; Karlsson, Charlie; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
This report presents a case study of the role of a large R&D intensive multinational company for a small open economy. The case study examines the role of AstraZeneca in the Swedish economy, i.e. an economy dominated by multinational companies. The purpose of the report is to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419313
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Accessibility to R&D and Patent Production
Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
often is the case with R&D outputs, the regional distribution of patents is highly skewed with influential outliers. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644933
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THE PROBLEM OF TRADING PATENTS IN ORGANIZED MARKETS: A dynamic experimental microeconomic system model and informal price theory
Ullberg, Eskil - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
transparent prices of patents, dynamic gains from using a patent in multiple industries and the coordination of invention …, intermediary and innovation activities using a linear contract on patents (fixed fee plus royalty on revenues). A trader is … previous work on patents, trade and economics in that the focus is on the competitive pricing of the rights themselves, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683484
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COORDINATING INVENTIVE AND INNOVATIVE DECISIONS THROUGH MARKETS WITH PRICES: A Experimental Study of Patent Markets with Transparent Prices
Ullberg, Eskil - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
The patent system makes organized markets in patents with transparent prices possible. Such prices are here …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008483921
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FROM PERSONAL TO IMPERSONAL EXCHANGE IN IDEAS: An Experimental Study of Patent Markets with Transparent Prices
Ullberg, Eskil - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
The question of how prices on patents rights should be determined in impersonal exchanges is examined in a laboratory … market with impersonal exchange mechanisms and prices in the traditionally hierarchical and personal exchange of patents. A … mechanisms for organized market on patents with transparent prices. It also shows that intermediaries (traders) are critical to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008483925
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Innovation, Metropolitan and Productivity
Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011
This paper assesses the contribution to productivity of firms’ internal innovation efforts and spatially-specific factors. A dynamic GMM-estimator is applied to a panel of close to 3,000 firms located in 81 Swedish regions and observed over a 10-year period. The magnitude of benefits from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352234
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R&D-Persistency, Metropolitan Externalities and Productivity
Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
Firms display persistent differences as regards both internal and external characteristics, and these differences correspond to asymmetries in the performance of firms with regard to productivity level and growth as well as innovativeness. This paper focuses on one internal characteristic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693102
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Innovation, R&D and Productivity - assessing alternative specifications of CDM-models
Johansson, Börje; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
This paper applies a CDM-model framework to depict the successive links (correlations) between (i) innovation expenditure, (ii) innovation output, and (iii) firm productivity. The CDM model has become popular in many countries among scholars using data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771058
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Innovation Strategy and Firm Performance What is the long-run impact of persistent R&D?
Börje, Johansson; Hans, Lööf - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
There are systematic long-run differences in the performance of firms explained by the R&D-strategy that each firm employs. Controlling for unobservable heterogeneity, past performance and other firm characteristics, this paper shows that labour productivity is, on average, 13 percent higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492617