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Once upon a Time…: A Reflection on the Relationships between Industry and Services - C’era una volta…: una riflessione sui rapporti fra industria e servizi
Rey, Guido M. - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 65 (2012) 1, pp. 109-147
Economists pay little attention to the services sector, defined as intangible activities incorporated in utilisation of the good. Italy has a share of services similar to that of its equally developed European partners (around 70% of GDP) but internet services are still not widespread,...
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Contracting for innovation under knightian uncertainty
AMARANTE, Massimiliano; GHOSSOUB, Mario; PHELPS, Edmund - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2012
At any given point in time, the collection of assets existing in the economy is observable. Each asset is a function of a set of contingencies. The union taken over all assets of these contingencies is what we call the set of publicly known states. An innovation is a set of states that are not...
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Knowledge spillovers and economic performance of firms located in depressed areas: does geographical proximity matter?
Araújo, Liliana; Silva, Sandra T.; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
Extensive literature on the contribution of knowledge spillovers to growth and development at the regional level exists but these studies mainly features regions characterised by a high level of economic development. This paper assesses the importance of knowledge spillovers for firms located in...
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Inovação e Conhecimento: um Estudo de Caso da Aracruz Celulose
Dias, Dnilson Carlos - Ciências Econômicas, Escola de Agronomia e Engenharia … - 2009
The way a company creates and shares knowledge can come to form themselves into a sustainable competitive advantage with high gains in its industrial sector. This work is a case study of an invention, which later became a technological innovation, the project mipis - Micro Port Bait...
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Contracting for Innovation under Knightian Uncertainty
Amarante, Massimiliano; Ghossoub, Mario; Phelps, Edmund - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2012
At any given point in time, the collection of assets existing in the economy is observable. Each asset is a function of a set of contingencies. The union taken over all assets of these contingencies is what we call the set of publicly known states. An innovation is a set of states that are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616508
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Economic emergence: An evolutionary economic perspective
Foster, John; Metcalfe, J. Stan - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 2, pp. 420-432
The standard neoclassical approach to economic theorising excludes, by definition, economic emergence and the related phenomenon of entrepreneurship. We explore how the most economic of human behaviours, entrepreneurship, came to be largely excluded from mainstream economic theory. In contrast,...
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Evidence Theory: A Mathematical Framework for Unpredictable Hypotheses
Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002
Shafer's evidence theory is a branch of the mathematics of uncertain reasoning that allows for novel possibilities to be conceived by a decision-maker. Many of its findings exhibit striking similarities with an alternative decision theory purported by Shackle in the 1950s, before expected...
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Who is Afraid of Pirates? An Experiment on the Deterrence of Innovation by Imitation
Engel, Christoph; Kleine, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013
cost, and without bearing innovation risk. We model the situation as a game and test it in the lab. We find even more … most industries for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught with … cost and risk. Nonetheless standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by …
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Who is afraid of pirates? An experiment on the deterrence of innovation by imitation
Engel, Christoph; Kleine, Marco - In: Research Policy 44 (2015) 1, pp. 20-33
most industries and for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught … with cost and risk. Nonetheless, standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011116601
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R&D, INNOVATION AND STOCK MARKET PERFORMANCE: A STUDY ON MANUFACTURING FIRMS TRADED IN BORSA ISTANBUL
DİNDAROĞLU, Burak; TAKIM, Yekta - In: Ekonomik Yaklasim 24 (2013) 89, pp. 25-44
We investigate the relationship between innovation indicators (R&D and patenting) and stock market performance for a panel of manufacturing firms traded on Borsa İstanbul (BIST), formerly known as the İstanbul Stock Exchange. Similar to previous results obtained using U.S. and European data,...
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