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The dynamics of resource allocation in research organizations

Filson, Darren - 2000

As a first step towards understanding the evolution of small groups in firms, this paper develops and tests a simple decision-theoretical model of research-unit evolution in which, as managers resolve their uncertainty over time, they shut down under-performing units and remove under-performing...

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Commitment in R&D tournaments via strategic delegation to overoptimistic managers

Englmaier, Florian - 2010

This paper shows that it is profitable for a firm to hire an overoptimistic manager to commit to a certain investment strategy in an R&D tournament situation. In the unique symmetric equilibrium, all firms delegate to overoptimistic managers, where the optimal degree of overoptimism depends on...

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Market structure, FDI, imitation and innovation : a model of North-South intellectual property rights conflict

Zhuang, Ziyin; Wei Zou - In: Journal of Chinese economic and business studies 8 (2010) 3, pp. 253-267

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Auctioning process innovations when losers' bids determine royalty rates

Fan, Cuihong; Chŏn, Pyŏng-hŏn; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2010

We consider a licensing mechanism for process innovations that combines a license auction with royalty contracts to those who lose the auction. Firms' bids are dual signals of their cost reductions: the winning bid signals the own cost reduction to rival oligopolists, whereas the losing bid...

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Licensing a common value innovation when signaling strength may backfire

Fan, Cuihong; Chŏn, Pyŏng-hŏn; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2010

This paper reconsiders the licensing of a common value innovation to a downstream duopoly, assuming a dual licensing …

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The effects of production offshoring on R&D and innovation in the home country

Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2013

A strong innovation performance based on R&D, product development and the implementation of advanced production … offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … manufacturing firms from seven European countries. We employ propensity score matching to compare R&D and innovation activities of …

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