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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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Mapping the two faces of R&D : productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - 2001
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537553
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Defensive Innovations
Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406885
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Industrial research versus development investment : the implications of financial constraints
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2009
recipients' investment is less sensitive to internal liquidity. -- Research and development ; liquidity constraints ; innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881344
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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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Mapping innovative clusters in national innovation systems
Spielkamp, Alfred; Vopel, Katrin - 1998
In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …
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Empirical patterns of firm growth and R&D investment : a quality ladder model interpretation
Klette, Tor Jakob; Griliches, Zvi - 1998
We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518444
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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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Firm R&D investment and export market exposure
Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh - 2018
product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932163
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Innovation, imitation and open source
Pollock, Rufus - 2008
, results in a higher level of innovation. …
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