The contribution of New Technology-based Firms (NTBFs) to long term economic development is at the centre of a …

Innovation is commercialization of technology. Imperfections in markets for technology should leave marks on physical … investments for innovation. Two types of transaction costs could affect innovative investments: royality stacking and hold …-up threats. Backward references in firm's patent portfolio indicate potential technology suppliers. I find a negative effect of …

Does investment in social infrastructure affect the productivity of manufacturing firms in developing countries? To … test this question, I empirically investigate the impact of social infrastructure indicators at district level on firm … regions with better infrastructure equipment. My findings reveal that indicators of health and education are positively and …

impact on investment in new infrastructure. Furthermore, infrastructure-based competition from mobile operators and the … replacement effect stemming from the incumbents’ existing infrastructure exert a negative impact on ex ante investment incentives … the desired infrastructure level. …

new fiber-based communications infrastructure. Since such investment is expected to induce substantial positive …, deregulatory policies including soft regulation are the dominant policy in “black” areas, where several independent infrastructure …

Electronic Communications Code (EECC) - with one key aim being the provision of sufficient incentives for infrastructure …

incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by …

. Moreover, high-tech start-ups are more concentrated within or near technology and foundation centres. …

consumers' willingness to pay for an enlarged fueling infrastructure. We examine a stated preferences choice experiment …-types are changing with a modified fueling infrastructure. In our scenarios hybrids, LPG/CNG and hydrogen will be real … situation where their infrastructure is equally developed. Moreover, on the basis of our model we compute what increases in …