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Innovation, R&D and productivity in the Costa Rican ICT sector : a case study
Monge González, Ricardo; Hewitt, John - 2010
This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246566
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On biology and technology : the economics of managing biotechnologies
Goeschl, Timo; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2003
. Under speed-dependent evolution, a patent-based system will fail to target socially optimal innovation size. The overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591673
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Intellectual property rights in the EU pre-commercial procurement for innovation
Dimitri, Nicola - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883173
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Capturing value in innovation procurement : a business case methodology
Rainville, Anne Marie; Apostol, Ramona - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747672
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Corporate capture of blockchain governance
Ferreira, Daniel Bernardo Soares; Li, Jin; Nikolowa, … - 2019
We develop a theory of blockchain governance. In our model, the proof-of-work system, which is the most common set of rules for validating transactions in blockchains, creates an industrial ecosystem with specialized suppliers of goods and services. We analyze the two-way interactions between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962959
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High-tech clusters, technology spillovers, and trade secret laws
Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - 2002
simple model of cumulative innovation is presented where technology spillovers arise endogenously through labor mobility. It … develop an innovation is neither very high nor very low. We show that some trade secret protection is always beneficial for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142257
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Industrial Economics in Scandinavia: 1880-1980
Foss, Nicolai J.; Møllgaard, Peter - 2004
Based on diverse research methods, we trace and map industrial economics research in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the periode of 1880 to 1908. After describing this research in terms of key contributors, we argue that industrial economics developed rather unevenly in the Scandinavian countries....
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Merger negotiations and ex-post regret
Gärtner, Dennis (contributor);  … - 2007
-burning in the case of false reports. -- Mergers ; Mechanism ; design ; Asymmetric ; information ; Interdependent ; valuations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387546
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The impact of immigration on Portuguese intra-industry trade
Leitão, Nuno Carlos - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between intra-industry trade (IIT) and immigration flows using a gravity model for the period 2000-2010 between Portugal and European Union’s Member States (EU-27). The present study uses the methodology of Kandogan (2003) for separating IIT into its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009714371
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Merge or fail? : The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995 - 2000
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2005
This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002746135