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Eco-Innovation and its Determinants : A Review of the Emerging Literature

Păcesilă, Mihaela; Ciocoiu, Carmen Nadia - 2019

The aim of this paper is to enrich the existing research on eco-innovation and to provide an insight into the existing … body of literature on eco-innovation determinants by analyzing the most significant publications in the area and the … developments in the area in order to develop insights into the evolution of eco-innovation and its main determinants. The findings …

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Pioneer Pannar Merger Impact Assessment

Paelo, Anthea; Robb, Genna; Vilakazi, Thando - 2018

efficiencies in terms of innovation. We also point out that the incentive to invest and innovate has most likely been dampened for … been limited by the data which is available. We set out recommendations regarding the importance of focusing on innovation …

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Specialization, Fragmentation, and Pluralism in Economics

Davis, John B. - 2018

’s behavioral burden of knowledge argument, (iv) Ross innovation-diffusion analysis and Arthur’s theory of technological change as … determinants of specialization in science, and (v) the effects of space and culture or internationalization on innovation …

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Disguised Patent Policymaking

Vishnubhakat, Saurabh - 2020

Patent Office power has grown immensely in this decade, and the agency is wielding its power in predictably troubling ways. Like other agencies, it injects politics into its decisions while relying on technocratic justifications. It also reads grants of authority expansively to aggrandize its...

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Renewed Efficiency in Administrative Patent Revocation

Vishnubhakat, Saurabh - 2019

Administrative patent revocation in the U.S. is poised to enter a new period of efficiency, though ironically it will be an efficiency that the America Invents Act originally put in place. The Court’s recent approval of the constitutionality of Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB")...

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IP and Competition : Context, Test, and Balance

Carrier, Michael A. - 2018

This comment highlights the importance of context, the appropriate test, and balance for the IP/competition intersection. First, it emphasizes the importance of context, in particular the regulatory regime in the pharmaceutical industry, highlighting the role the FTC can play through litigation,...

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How Community Managers Affect Online Idea Crowdsourcing Activities

Hornuf, Lars; Jeworrek, Sabrina - 2020

In this study, we investigate whether and to what extent community managers in online collaborative communities can stimulate crowd activities through their engagement. Using a novel data set of 22 large online idea crowdsourcing campaigns, we find that active engagement of community managers...

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Whither Innovation? : Why Open Systems Architecture May Deliver on the False Promise of Public-Private Partnerships

Schoeni, Daniel - 2018

-private partnerships (P3s) as catalysts for innovation. This policy is misguided. P3s may prove especially disappointing if they are merely … of competition that safeguards the public fisc, delivers better value, and stimulates innovation …

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Public Subsidies for Open Source? Some Economic Policy Issues of the Software Market

Schmidt, Klaus M.; Schnitzer, Monika - 2015

This paper discusses the economic merits of direct or indirect governmental support for open source projects. Software markets differ from standard textbook markets in three important respects that may give rise to market failures: (i) large economies of scale, (ii) crucially important...

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Catching Up or Falling Behind

Li, Shuhe; Gong, Changzhen - 1998

stock, the distance from the leader's technology frontier, and the efforts it puts into learning as well as its learning … if its learning capability is above (below) a critical level …

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