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The role of personal relationships for doing business in the GPRD, China : evidence from Hong Kong electronics SMEs
Bickenbach, Frank; Liu, Wan-hsin - 2010
; production ; innovation ; China ; company survey … governance structures) for companies’ production as well as innovation activities. The results confirm the importance of personal … relationships between production and innovation activities. -- Personal relationships ; formal and informal institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932604
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Innovation, R&D and productivity in the Costa Rican ICT sector : a case study
Monge González, Ricardo; Hewitt, John - 2010
This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246566
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Do exporting firms in the People's Republic of China innovate?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2012
-level export performance in Asia's super exporter - The People's Republic of China (PRC). While early studies suggested that … innovation was important, there has been little research on opening up the black box of technology at firm-level in the PRC. This … paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009557904
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Are ex ante and ex post licensing agreements useful instruments to lessen uncertainty in R&D?
Siebert, Ralph - 2013
In the last decades, technologies became more complex which increased the degree of uncertainty in R&D. To overcome the uncertainty, firms frequently engage in R&D collaborations, e.g., Research Joint Ventures (RJVs), and licensing agreements. While RJVs are well explored in the literature, very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223406
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Jostling for advantage : licensing and entry into patent portfolio races
Siebert, Ralph; Graevenitz, Georg von - 2006
Licensing in a patent thicket allows firms to either avoid or resolve hold-up. Firms' R&D incentives depend on whether they license ex ante or ex post. We develop a model of a patent portfolio race, which allows for endogenous R&D efforts, to study firms' choice between ex ante and ex post...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365900
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Industry evolution : new technologies and new firms
Filson, Darren; Franco, April Mitchell - 1999
This paper investigates the effects of employee mobility on industry evolution and technology diffusion by testing a dynamic industry equilibrium model introduced in Franco and Filson (1999). The model focuses on a particular type of employee mobility: researchers can leave existing firms and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569019
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How licensing resolves hold-up : evidence from a dynamic panel data model with unobserved heterogeneity
Siebert, Ralph; Graevenitz, Georg von - 2006
In a patent thicket licensing provides a mechanism to either avoid or resolve hold-up. Firms' R&D incentives will differ depending on how licensing is used. In this paper we study the choice between ex ante licensing to avoid hold-up and ex post licensing to resolve it. Building on a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343952
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Innovation, credit constraints, and trade credit: Evidence from a cross-country study
Bönte, Werner; Nielen, Sebastian - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between trade credit and innovation. While trade credit is well researched in the … finance literature, its link to innovation has been neglected in prior research. We argue that innovative small and medium … partners may have incentives to offer trade credit especially to innovative SMEs. The relationship between innovation and trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291119
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Innovation, credit constraints, and trade credit : evidence from a cross-country study
Bönte, Werner; Nielen, Sebastian - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between trade credit and innovation. While trade credit is well researched in the … finance literature, its link to innovation has been neglected in prior research. We argue that innovative small and medium … partners may have incentives to offer trade credit especially to innovative SMEs. The relationship between innovation and trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008652580
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Knowledge-based capital, innovation and resource allocation : a going for growth report
Andrews, Dan; Criscuolo, Chiara - 2013
, innovative property and economic competencies – has been rising significantly. This has implications for innovation and … role for innovation policies to raise private investment in KBC towards socially optimal levels. Indeed, R&D tax incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775561