characterized 150 years of medical research in ophthalmology. This is complemented in the second part by a network analysis of …

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise becauseworkers typically do not know … affects network formation, whilethe second coordination friction affects network clearing. We show that those frictions and … arise and the number of matches on a given network.Equilibria that exhibit wage dispersion are inefficient in terms of …

This paper addresses the key determinants of merger failure, in particularthe role of innovation (post-merger … introduce a model of process innovation where merged firmsexibit intra-merger spillover of knowledge under different market … model implications for merger failure for M&A datafrom the US biotechnology industry in the 90s. We find that post …

small worldnetwork. This paper develops a strategic network formation model where agents haveheterogeneous knowledge of the … network: cognizant agents know the whole network,while ignorant ones are less knowledgeable. For a broad range of parameters … higher betweenness centrality: they are the brokerswho connect di®erent parts of the network. Ignorant agents cause the …

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sectorto co-operate on innovation projects …. Our focus is on the motives behind this decisionand the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation … activities,which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from theCanadian Survey of Innovation 2005 we find …

We apply the property rights theory of Grossman-Hart-Moore in the musicindustry and study the optimal allocation of …

to investigate technology-related motivations behind merger formation... …