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This paper analyzes M&A patterns of R&D projects in the antidiabetics industry. For this purpose, we construct a database with all corporate individual antidiabetics R&D projects over the period 1997 - 2017, and add detailed information on firms' technology dimension using patent information,...
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This paper analyzes M&A patterns of R&D projects in the antidiabetics industry. For this purpose, we construct a database with all corporate individual antidiabetics R&D projects over the period 1997 - 2017, and add detailed information on firms' technology dimension using patent information,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474941
Using firm level information on the world leading R&D investors and employing a system GMM estimation, this paper investigates how sensitive R&D investments are to cash flow movements, which would be suggestive of financial constraints. The analysis confirms that over the last decade the R&D...
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Concern exists that public funding of science is increasingly risk averse. Funders have addressed this concern by soliciting the submission of high-risk research to either regular or specially designed programs. Little evidence, however, has been gathered to examine the extent to which such...
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Research which explores unchartered waters has a high potential for major impact but also carries a higher uncertainty of having impact. Such explorative research is often described as taking a novel approach. This study examines the complex relationship between pursuing a novel approach and...
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classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …
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In this contribution we describe how green policies should be designed to activate private innovation forces for … private green innovation machine. We try to assess how strong which types of government interventions have and can be to power … the green innovation machine. An important insight from the economic analysis of the effectiveness of the public …
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importance to the study of the innovation process, only recently research has started to attempt to trace researchers …’ intersectoral mobility When looking for ways to improve the transfers from science to innovation, most of the attention in the … universities to innovation based growth, should take a long-term perspective for developing an industry-science eco …
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This contribution focuses on the heterogeneity in innovation capacity within Europe across its different Member State … crisis affected this trend of convergence? We then take a look at the research and innovation policies which the EU countries … have in place and try to assess whether these policies match with the heterogeneous EU countries’ innovation capacity …
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This contribution focuses on the heterogeneity in innovation capacity within Europe across its different Member States … crisis affected this trend of convergence? We then take a look at the research and innovation policies which the EU countries … have in place and try to assess whether these policies match with the heterogeneous EU countries' innovation capacity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411110