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Intellectual Property Strategies and the Returns to R&D
Arora, Ashish; Ceccagnoli, Marco; Cohen, Wesley - 2000
other organizational factors influencing the productivity of R&D investments. A key result is that the effectiveness of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441081
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Intellectual Property Rights and Crop-Improving R&D under Adaptive Destruction
Yerokhin, Oleg; Moschini, GianCarlo - 2007
This paper studies how the strength of intellectual property rights (IPRs) affects investments in biological innovations when the value of an innovation is stochastically reduced to zero because of the evolution of pest resistance. We frame the problem as a research and development (R&D)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445584
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Pollution Regulation and the Efficiency Gains from Technological Innovation
Parry, Ian W.H. - 1997
Previous studies suggest that emissions taxes are more efficient at stimulating the development of improved pollution abatement technologies than other policy instruments, such as (non-auctioned) tradable emissions permits. We present results from a competitive model that cast some doubt on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446681
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Individual Incentives as Drivers of Innovative Processes and Performance
Sauermann, Henry - 2008
Applied economists and strategy scholars have examined a variety of firm-level factors that may explain the level and direction of firms' innovative effort and performance, including firms' profit incentives. Innovation at the firm level, however, should also depend heavily on the nature of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475449
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Technological Innovation of Chinese Firms: Indigenous R and D, Foreign Direct Investment, and Markets
Zhang, Jingjing - 2006
patents from patents awarded to universities and research institutes. The dependent variable for regression analysis is the … technological innovation performance of Chinese domestic firms as measured by the number of patents awarded to firms in 30 Chinese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476036
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Technology, growth and employment
Corley, Marva; Michie, Jonathan; Oughton, Christine - 2002
The relationship between technology, productivity and employment is a complex one. Increased productivity can lead not … can develop new markets. On the other hand, if demand and hence output does not expand in line with productivity, then an … inverse relation between productivity and employment will result. The European Union seeks to improve living standards in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441434
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Human capital, international migration, R&D spillovers, and productivity growth: A panel data analysis
Le, Thanh - 2006
development of national productivity. As technology is also embodied in human capital, the paper empirically investigates the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448802
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership
Zingales, Luigi; Reenen, John Van; Aghion, Philippe - 2009
-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431998
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Financial reporting discretion and voluntary disclosure: corporate research and development expenditure in Australia
Percy, Majella - 2000
The aim of this paper is to explain Australian R&D capitalisation and voluntary disclosure. It is argued that the discretionary choices available to management in Australia with respect to the accounting for and the disclosure of R&D expenditure and activities can be explained by the reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437483
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Discretionary Capitalization Of R&D: Evidence On The Usefulness In An Australian And Canadian Context
Smith, Dean T.; Percy, Majella; Richardson, Gordon D. - 2001
This study addresses the discretionary capitalization of R&D costs in Australia and Canada. We demonstrate, for both samples, that the discretionary capitalization of development costs (hereafter capitalized D) by the manager results in balance sheet and income numbers that are more highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437521