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<em>Innovation and performance in the long run: the case of Europe</em> - In this article we present the results of a … recent work on the long-term mechanisms of innovation and performance in Europe which contributes to the European innovation … scoreboard. Data from different waves of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) have been used as an instrument for understanding …
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innovation cost and time. Whereas the Japanese have substantial advantages in this regard in some industries (notably machinery … total innovation cost being devoted to tooling and manufacturing equipment and facilities, a smaller percentage being …
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ISTAT, the National Institute of Statistics, including data from three waves of Community Innovation Surveys. The model we … effects of innovative efforts, and the feedbacks between economic success and the ability to sustain innovation expenditure. …
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In this paper we present data concerning the accuracy of firm's forecasts of engineering employment and suggest a simple model that may be of use in improving their accuracy. The results, which pertain to 54 firms in the aerospace, electronics, chemical, and oil industries, should be of use to...
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To what extent would the rate of development and introduction of inventions decline in the absence of patent protection? To what extent do firms make use of the patent system, and what differences exist among firms and industries and over time in the propensity to patent? These questions are in...
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This paper presents the first R and D price indexes based largely on actual prices and expenditures reported by firms. The results, based on a carefully designed sample of about 100 firms, show that the GNP deflator, which is used in the official government R and D statistics, has tended to...
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For decades, policy makers in both the public and private sectors have been concerned with the question: What is the impact of changes in federal R and D support on company-financed R and D expenditures? This is one of the first empirical studies at a micro level of this topic. The results,...
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