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This paper investigates interregional differences in cooperative behavior of manufacturing establishments in the field of research and development (R&D). The empirical analysis for eleven European regions reveals a number of significant differences between these regions in the propensity to...
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We analyze the impact of the private label production channel on innovation. A retailer may either choose to integrate …. The trade-off between insourcing and outsourcing strategies is a choice between too much or too little innovation (i … brand manufacturer may create economies of scale that spur innovation. …
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We analyze the impact of the private label production channel on innovation. A retailer may either choose a competitive … too much or too little innovation, i.e. quality investment, on the private label. On the one hand, when choosing the … scale that spur innovation. …
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A framework is developed with which both R&D-subsidies and R&D-cooperatives can be analyzed. It is shown that in most cases providing R&D-subsidies is more effective in promoting private R&D than allowing for an R&D-cooperative. Moreover, considering the implementation of both R&D stimulating...
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&D-cooperations. The results of a microeconometric analysis, based on firm data on innovation, let in general presume that with intensified …
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Paper removed at the request of the author 12/04/08.
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The paper explores the idea that properties at the level of firms coevolve with more aggregate properties at the level of market institutions in the dynamics of industries. We propose that the structure of network of vertical relations limits the effect of increasing returns at the firm level....
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This paper addresses the problem of the general validity of models of the industry life cycle, which have been proposed to analyse the long-term evolution of many industries, exhibiting a typical pattern of shakeout. We study a case of non shake-out in the commercial jet aero-engine industry,...
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We study an industry in which an upstream monopolist supplies an essential input at a regulated price to several downstream firms. Legal unbundling means that a downstream firm owns the upstream firm but this upstream firm is legally independent and maximizes its own upstream profits. We allow...
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We show that the standard analysis of vertical relationships transposes directly to investment dynamics. Thus, when a firm undertaking a project requires an outside supplier (e.g., an equipment manufacturer) to provide it with a discrete input to serve a growing but uncertain demand, and if the...
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