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industry structure are determined endogenously. Weak appropriability conditions in the downstream industry enhance innovation …
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This papcr uses a new firm panel data set to explore the relationship between R&D and productivity in German manufacturing firms for the period from 1979 to 1989. The results confirm the view that K&D is an important determinant of productivity growth. In the cross-section, the elasticity of...
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An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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In this paper we discuss knowledge and innovation in clusters and the benefits of clustering from a knowledge …
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innovation, the business and social ties connecting firms deepen the hazards associated to the appropriation of rents. …
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The ability to generate innovations and capture the rents from innovation are important for firms’ competitive … innovation output, the knowledge flows among the clustered firms and, ultimately, on who captures the rents from innovation. The … rents from innovation. Extant research has noted that the social and business networks binding firms in clusters are …
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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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This introduces the symposium on economic growth.
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We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany's bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...
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