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This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped and unique Eurostat International Sourcing Survey. The results are easy to summarize. First, the magnitude of R&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is...
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Aiming at both low prices and innovation, policy makers and economists have long argued about the optimal intensity of … innovation due to the low appropriability of rents established economic approaches advocate competition to be conducive to … innovation. This reflects the dispute in economics between Schumpeterian and neoclassical theories. Aghion et al. (2005) offered …
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specific needs of targeted markets. All these developments are leading to the globalization of innovation. Based on recent … reference model for chances and challenges of global innovation activities. …
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literature on international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), economic geography, and innovation, and compares these with … development, and on the innovation capability of countries. …
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firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the effects of R&D collaborations on a firm's environmental innovation … a firm's environmental innovation performance. In addition, this paper addresses the question of whether the diversity …
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demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …
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This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …
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Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …
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We study social learning and innovation in an overlapping generations model, emphasizing the trade-off between marginal … innovation (combining existing technologies) and radical innovation (breaking new ground). We characterize both short-term and … long-term dynamics of innovation, and the intergenerational accumulation of knowledge. Innovation cycles emerge …
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Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and … the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a … large unbalanced panel data set based on the innovation survey for Norway. Four different types of innovation and the number …
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