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Complementary assets, patent thickets and hold-up threats : do transaction costs undermine investments in innovation?
Schwiebacher, Franz - 2012
Innovation is commercialization of technology. Imperfections in markets for technology should leave marks on physical …-up threats. Backward references in firm's patent portfolio indicate potential technology suppliers. I find a negative effect of … characteristics of the downstream firm. -- Market for Technology ; Complementary Assets ; Transaction Costs ; Patent Thickets …
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Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?
Schulte, Patrick - 2015
to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has … (covering manufacturing and service industries) and 13 years (1995-2007), the analysis shows that skill-biased technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418759
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The livelihood effects of industrialization on displaced households : evidence from falta special economic zone, West Bengal
Saumik, Paul; Sarma, Vengadeshvaran - 2013
Much of the debate on industrialization and displacement has, so far, focused on the optimum compensation for affected households. Our recently concluded study, comprising of a sample of 1017 households including 630 affected (displaced and land acquired) and 387 unaffected households, looks at...
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Estimation of sectoral elasticities of substitution along the international technology frontier
Baccianti, Claudio - 2013
Sectoral heterogeneity is crucial to address several economic questions. This paper provides a detailed mapping of sectoral production possibility frontiers, using different nesting structures and levels of aggregation (primary, secondary, tertiary activities and energy-intensive firms)....
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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2014
performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …
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A look at both sides of the coin : investigating the protective and the disclosure effect of patenting
Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra K. - 2013
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of the two basic effects of patenting: the positive effect of temporarily mitigating competition, and the negative effect of mandatory disclosure of a patent application. Providing empirical evidence for the presented theoretical...
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Occupational and locational substitution : measuring the effect of occupational and regional mobility
Aldashev, Alisher - 2009
The paper analyzes effects of occupational and regional mobility on the matching rate using the monthly panel disaggregated on regional and occupational level. The main contribution of the paper is measuring the effect of substitutability between vacancies for different occupations and vacancies...
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Short-term training programs for immigrants : do effects differ from natives and why?
Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010
We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might cause these potential differences. In a first step,...
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Against the one-way-street : analyzing knowledge transfer from industry to science
Fier, Heide; Pyka, Andreas - 2010
probability of scientific institutions is not affected by cultural distance. -- Technology transfer ; patent citation analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989029
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Does immigration weaken natives’ support for the welfare state? : evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
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