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The beneficial effects of innovation for firms' performance and competitiveness are well documented, but it has been … to local firms. We investigate whether FDI spillovers influence different phases of the innovation process (from decision …. Local firms benefit from foreign counterparts in the early phase of the innovation process. Stronger FDI effects are found …
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address one question: Does it matter how firms diversify? We find that geographical diversification increases the probability …
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information, which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in market … implementation in order to achieve innovation-friendly and competitive digital markets. …
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autonomous firms spanning both within and across national borders. Exploiting a unique dataset of 270,474 headquarters …
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Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition....
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even developed in both firms and markets. -- Ideas ; Innovation ; Entrepreneurship ; Firm Organization ; Start-Ups … firms ensuring rewards to inventors, while their legal boundaries limit idea leakage. As firms limit idea circulation, the … innovative environment involves a symbiotic interaction: firms incubate ideas and allow employees to leave if they cannot find an …
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the case of India. The aim is to explore the relation between lead firms, particularly MNCs, and the extent to they have … countries, especially China. In contrast to China, India has relied more on home-grown lead firms to propel its industry. A …
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bottlenecks that might be hindering the translation of China's innovation efforts into productivity growth. …As the Chinese economy continues to decelerate, the central government is investing heavily in innovation, doubling … so far, looking at the inputs to innovation (R&D and human capital) as well as intermediate targets, such as scientific …
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, consumers trade off leisure versus consumption, and firms trade off innovation efforts versus manufacturing. For this model, we …This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can … elucidate part of the resource curse hypothesis; i.e. the observed negative impact of resource wealth on income growth. We …
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