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Technology Life-Cycles and Endogenous Growth
Iyigun, Murat - 2015
technologies during the early stages of which a discovery is followed by a period of rapid economic growth and innovation, and the …
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Market Structure and Schumpeterian Growth
Lambson, Val E.; Phillips, Kerk - 2015
important differences from continuous time. First, the probability of successful innovation cannot be homogeneous of degree one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072136
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On Rivalry, Variety and Spillovers in Endogenous Growth
Peretto, Pietro F. - 2008
concentration and firm size. These determine the scale and the efficiency of R&D operations and the (average) rate of innovation. If …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014102339
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Anti-Competitive Conduct, In-House R&D, and Growth
Grossmann, Volker - 2010
Incumbent firms have two basic possibilities to improve their competitive position in the product market: investment in R&D and the creation of entry barriers to the disadvantage of potential rivals, e.g. through lobbying activities, campaign contributions, bribes or the adoption of incompatible...
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External vs. Internal Learning-by-Doing in an R&D Based Growth Model
Hornstein, Andreas - 2012
In an economy where growth is determined by the interaction of R&D and learning-by-doing (LBD), changes of factors that stimulate either one of these activities affect growth differently than in an economy where growth is determined by either R&D or LBD alone. In particular, when firms...
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Back to Basics : Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2014
This paper introduces a model of endogenous growth through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in the nature and the magnitude of the generated spillovers. We propose a novel way of empirically identifying these spillovers and embed them in a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013062814
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External vs. Internal Learning-by-Doing in an R&D Based Growth Model
Hornstein, Andreas; Peled, Dan - 2012
In an economy where growth is determined by the interaction of R&D and learning-by-doing (LBD), changes of factors that stimulate either one of these activities affect growth differently than in an economy where growth is determined by either R&D or LBD alone. In particular, when firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215854
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Low Returns in R&D Due to the Lack of Entrepreneurial Skills
Michelacci, Claudio - 2013
innovation, too few resources are allocated to entrepreneurship and returns to R&D are low because of this lack of … entrepreneurial skills. When so, innovation should be promoted by encouraging entrepreneurship rather than research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121352
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Innovation vs. imitation and the evolution of productivity distributions
König, Michael D.; Lorenz, Jan; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 11 (2016) 3, pp. 1053-1102
We develop a tractable dynamic model of productivity growth and technology spillovers that is consistent with the emergence of real world empirical productivity distributions. Firms can improve productivity by engaging in in-house R\&D, or alternatively, by trying to imitate other firms'...
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012 - This version: November 29, 2012
on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … total revenues and of R&D employment in total employment, whereas firms with a higher share of female employment seem to be … more active in R&D. -- Ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D …
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