This Ph.D. dissertation studies innovation in Germany from 1877 to 1914. The German patents that had survived for at … least ten years are used as a proxy of innovation. The introduction briefly outlines the issues to be investigated. The … distribution of patents across industries and across regions. The second chapter investigates the regional innovation system (RIS …

Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and … innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a … rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …

the enactment of the first nationwide German patent law in 1877 and 1932. This patent act enabled both, national and … the cross-border importance of patent protection for domestic and foreign inventors and economies is still …-1932. Therefore, we study the potential influence of patent laws, institutional quality, and primary and secondary schooling. Controls …

Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … innovation and, in particular, builds on the evolutionary explanation of technology development, the Teecian framework on … profiting from innovation, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE), the Knowledge-Based View (KBV), and open innovation and innovation …

Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … innovation and, in particular, builds on the evolutionary explanation of technology development, the Teecian framework on … profiting from innovation, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE), the Knowledge-Based View (KBV), and open innovation and innovation …

Large estimates of the benefits of microeconomic reform have been put forward in official studies. By contrast, Quiggin …. Overstated claims about the benefits of microeconomic reform have distorted Australia's economic priorities and encouraged an …

contrast two insurance regimes; the status quo of mandated pooling of all risk types and the reform proposal being insurance … with risk-type separation over time, using Bayesian updating. Most individuals would benefit from the reform since their … risk type is better than the average but the reform does not occur due to individual uncertainty. …