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Opening up military innovation: causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517156
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Responsible research and innovation : a conceptual contribution to theory and practice of technology management
Nazarko, Lukasz - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 20 (2019), pp. 342-351
The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a popular term as a result of making it a cross … desirability of the innovation process and its products. The work presents a review of the state-of-art scientific literature on … Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) together with a synthesis of theoretical and practical challenges faced by this new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221597
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Designing dynamic research contests
Benkert, Jean-Michel; Letina, Igor - 2019 - Revised version
This paper studies the optimal design of dynamic research contests. We introduce interim transfers, which are paid in every period while the contest is ongoing, to an otherwise standard setting. We show that a contest where: (i) the principal can stop the contest in any period, (ii) a constant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052584
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Economic modeling in the management of transition to bioeconomy
Busu, Cristian; Busu, Mihail - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 50, pp. 24-40
development of the producers is a direct consequence of the association of a number of factors such as innovation and technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979704
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Offshoring R&D
Tuhkuri, Joonas; Lööf, Hans; Mohammadi, Ali; … - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037672
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Innovation without magic bullets : stock pollution and R&D sequences
Goeschl, Timo; Perino, Grischa - 2006
We study the optimal R&D trajectory in a setting where new technologies are never perfect backstops in the sense that there is no perfectly clean technology that eventually solves the pollution problem once and for all. New technologies have stings attached, i.e. each emits a specific stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003592656
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From bricks to brains : increasing the contribution of knowledge-based capital to growth in Ireland
Haugh, David - 2013
investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231006
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Fingerprints of the visible hand : Chandlerian organizations and their inward looking malaise
Gambardella, Alfonso (contributor);  … - 2004
their inward looking or exploitationʺ attitude in R&D and innovation. We argue that because of sunk costs and learning …. Among other things, this suggests that explorationʺ, which leads to the opening of new innovation trajectories, requires not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003211779
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Understanding the Spanish Business Innovation Gap : The Role of Spillovers and Firms’ Absorptive Capacity
Montero, Jose Manuel - 2011
, we find that innovation performance exhibits a high degree of inertia. Further, some other observed firm characteristics … be relevant determinants of the likelihood of innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133368
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Research, Innovation and Technological Performance in Germany (Report 2012)
Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013
On behalf of the Federal Government of Germany, the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation presents its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082602