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The Regional distribution of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Europe: a spatial approach
Rodriguez, Mercedes; Camacho, José Antonio - 2010
perspective, that is, analyse regions in a specific country. On the contrary, comparisons of regional features have been carried …-intensive services (KIS) in the European regions. For so doing we employ the data provided by the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS …) 2009. This database provides information on the innovation performance across 194 regions of the European Union and Norway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332531
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Technological capabilities and patterns of cooperation of UK firms: a regional investigation
Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2009
This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277122
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Social media and inclusive human development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020
This study investigates the relationship between social media and inclusive human development in 49 African countries for the year 2012. Social media is measured with Facebook penetration whereas inclusive human development is proxied by the inequalityadjusted human development index. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389172
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To Be Financed or Not…: The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Mueller, Elisabeth; Harhoff, Dietmar; Haeussler, Carolin - 2009
venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298721
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Languages, fees and the international scope of patenting
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin; van Pottelsberghe de la … - 2015
This paper analyzes firms' choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs on firms' decision to validate a patent in a particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350844
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The impact of energy prices on green innovation: Study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Ley, Marius; Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2013
energy prices of the previous five years results in a 2.7% and 4.5% increase of the number of green patents and the ratio of … green patents to non-green patents, respectively. We also find that the impact of energy prices increases with an increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386846
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An emerging paradigm or just another trajectory? Understanding the nature of technological changes using engineering heuristics in the telecommunications switching industry
Martinelli, Arianna - 2011
patents and patent citations. The rich technological history of telecommunications switches shows how engineers in the post … point for an in-depth analysis of patents, in search of information about technological direction, technical bottlenecks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328386
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The revolution within: ICT and the shifting knowledge base of the world's largest companies
Mendonça, Sandro - 2005
This empirical paper analyses the importance of information and communications technologies (ICT) in the technological diversification trend among the world's largest manufacturing firms during the 1980s and 1990s. The objective of the research is twofold: firstly, to emphasise the emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328555
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Nanotechnology as general purpose technology
Kreuchauff, Florian; Teichert, Nina - 2014
Scientific literature postulates that nanotechnology is to be considered as general purpose technology (GPT), characterized by pervasiveness, high technological dynamism and the inducement of innovations within a variety of applications. We set out to not only further systematize existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329601
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To Be Financed or Not... - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333772