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Is There a Tradeoff between Average Patent Pendency and Examination Errors?
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014
It is now common knowledge that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) takes too long to process patent applications and that examiners make too many errors in the patent approval process. Given these twin concerns, we study the following question in this paper. Should the...
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Is There a Tradeoff between Average Patent Pendency and Examination Errors?
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2015
It is now common knowledge that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) takes too long to process patent applications and that examiners make too many errors in the patent approval process. Given these twin concerns, we study the following question in this paper. Should the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026976
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Digital Technologies, Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation Policies, and Economic Growth in a Creative Region
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2016
We theoretically study the impact of two innovation policies on economic growth in a region that is creative in the …
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Digital Technologies, Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation Policies, and Economic Growth in a Creative Region
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2015
We theoretically study the impact of two innovation policies on economic growth in a region that is creative in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019813
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Positive and Negative Externalities in Innovation, Trade, and Regional Economic Growth
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2013
We analyze the interactions between positive and negative externalities in innovation and trade for economic growth in … is growth in the human capital stock but there are negative externalities in innovation. In this scenario, we show that … opening a region to trade leads to more innovation but to no change in its long run growth rate …
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The Adoption of Energy Efficiency Enhancing Technologies
Verhoef, Erik; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output...
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The Impact of Regional Absorptive Capacity on Spatial Knowledge Spillovers
Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper led to an article in <I>Applied Economics</I> (2012). Volume 44, issue 11, pages 1363-1374.<P> We design a conceptual framework for linking two approaches: the literature on absorptive capacity and the literature on spatial knowledge spillovers. Regions produce new knowledge, but...</p></i>
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Technology, Learning, and Long Run Economic Growth in Leading and Lagging Regions
Batabyal, Amit; Nijkamp, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014
We use a dynamic model to study the effects of technology and learning on the long run economic growth rates of a leading and a lagging region. New technologies are developed in the leading region but technological improvements in the lagging region are the result of learning from the leading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075813
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Social and spatial ubiquity of information and communication technology: a policy perspective
Nijkamp, Peter; Ouwersloot, Hans - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1997
In this paper, we analyze some fundamental impacts of the process of informatization. In particular, we address socio-economic and spatial impacts and discuss possible consequences for policy. Our objective is to discuss issues concerning the desirability, necessity and possibility of government...
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Urban futures in the era of the e-economy
Geenhuizen, Marina van; Nijkamp, Peter - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 2001
The wide use of information and communication technology leads to structural changes in our economy and society. The impacts of ICTs embrace not only a faster and denser communication but also a reorganisation of values chains, firms, labour relations and management structures. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782726