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Dynamics of Competition Between Incumbent and Emerging Network Technologies
Jin, Youngmi; Sen, Soumya; Guérin, Roch A; Hosanagar, … - 2008
The Internet is by all accounts an incredible success, but in spite or maybe because of this success, its deficiencies have come under increasing scrutiny and triggered calls for new architectures to succeed it. Those architectures will, however, face a formidable incumbent in the Internet, and...
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Innovation to fight hunger: The case of Plumpy'nut
Guimón, José; Guimón, Pablo - 2009
A simple invention can at times prove extremely useful. This is the case with Plumpy’nut, a variety of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), conceived in 1999, that is shaping a new regime for emergency interventions to alleviate child malnutrition. This paper applies concepts from the...
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Technology Diffusion Dynamics: The case of Chile’s Forestry Industry
Catalan, Pablo; Cozzens, Susan E. - 2009
Based on Everett Rogers’ diffusion model, the article explores diffusion dynamics in Chile’s Forestry Industry. Technology adoption is defined as depending upon innovation attributes, collaboration, communication channels, research and development (R&D) capacity, and institutional...
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Two economic perspectives on the IPv6 transition
School of Information Systems
Purpose – IPv6 is the replacement for the Internet’s incumbent protocol, IPv4. IPv6 adoption is required to allow the Internet to continue to grow; however, there has been almost no uptake since its standardisation in the late 1990s. This paper seeks to explain how this non-adoption may be a...
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Technical assistance programs and the diffusion of environmental technologies in the printing industry: The Case of SMEs
Rothenberg, Sandra; Becker, Monica - 2004
The goal of this article is to better understand the diffusion of environmentally preferable manufacturing technology (as distinct from pollution control technology) in small-and medium-sized firms (SMEs) and the influence of technical assistance programs on the diffusion of these technologies....
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Global economic integration, technology diffusion and climate change
Michael Hübler - 2010
This thesis is a collection of research papers examining global economic integration, technology diffusion and climate change and their interactions and policy implications. Chapter 1 theoretically analyzes the effect of changes in regional production costs on the inter-regional allocation of...
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14.452 Economic Growth, Fall 2008
Acemoglu, Daron - 2008
The basic machines of macroeconomics. Ramsey, Solow, Samuelson-Diamond, RBCs, ISLM, Mundell-Fleming, Fischer-Taylor. How they work, what shortcuts they take, and how they can be used. Half-term subject. From the course home page: Course Description This half semester class presents an...
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Patents and Antitrust: Application to Adjacent Markets
Economides, Nicholas; Herbert, WILLIAM N.; Calvo and … - NYU Stern School of Business - 2007
We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patentholder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … market. The present scheme forawarding patents cannot judge when the issuance of a patent will lead tothe appropriate balance … competence to ensure that patents do not cause economic stagnationand harm by permitting a patent holder to extend its monopoly …
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NOT QUITE UP TO SCRATCH: AN EXAMINATION OF FAILURE, PERSISTENCE, AND ‘LIVING DEAD’ OUTCOMES FOR WIRELESS START-UPS
Ghosh, Anindya - 2011
, through patents, exposes new firms to undesired spillovers. The second essay exploits asymmetric effects on success and …
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Intellectual Property Strategies and the Returns to R&D
Arora, Ashish; Ceccagnoli, Marco; Cohen, Wesley - 2000
Although the prospect of obtaining patent protection is believed to encourage R&D investments and thus the rate of inventive activity, there is little by way of direct evidence to support this belief. We use original data from the 1994 Carnegie Mellon survey on the appropriation of R&D in the US...
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