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It remains an open question whether the impact of environmental regulations differs by the size of the business. Such differences might be expected because of statutory, enforcement, and/or compliance asymmetries. Here, we consider the net effect of these three asymmetries, by estimating the...
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between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 …
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between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 …
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competition on R&D according to the cost of the innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the … shape is flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant for innovation when innovations are relatively costly …. Intuitively, if innovations are costly for a firm, competitive shocks have to be significant to alter its innovation decisions …
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This paper examines how strategic alliances to create and use standards affect economic growth and development. The explanation of the link from standards to economic growth and development is through the effects of standards on the incentives to perform industrial research and development...
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entrants. Focusing primarily on pharmaceutical innovation, we analyze various policy interventions to solve this … an underlying invention's social value, and we show how such a system could incentivize socially optimal innovation …
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identify and quantify the impact of environmental regulations, innovation-inputs, firm-specific characteristics, spillovers … from other green innovators, public funding and innovation co-operations on the propensity of firms to introduce …
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This study examines the interaction between formalization of the artisanal and smallscale mining subsector and the regulation of negative environmental impacts in Tanzania. Formalization generally seeks to move the artisanal and small-scale mining subsector to legal status. Using documents,...
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This study provides a comprehensive assessment of firms' operation and environmental protection polices in Nigeria and Ghana, where there has been a rising industrial growth amidst low regulatory and institutional frameworks. We analyze the extents to whic h firms' adoption of environmental...
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Water intensive manufacturing enterprises implicates a specific modality of human-nature relations, in which resources are "extracted" from nature to meet the demands of humans and the effluents (wastewater) and wastes produced in this process are ‘dumped’ back into nature (sea, river,...
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