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Technology's edge: The educational benefits of computer-aided instruction

Barrow, Lisa; Markham, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - 2007

Because a significant portion of U.S. students lacks critical mathematic skills, schools across the country are investing heavily in computerized curriculums as a way to enhance education output, even though there is surprisingly little evidence that they actually improve student achievement. In...

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Competition and innovation: An inverted u relationship

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Blundell, Richard; … - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A Schumpeterian growth model is developed in which firms innovate Ñ³tep-by-stepÒ¬ and where both technological leaders and their followers engage in R&D activities. In this model, competition...

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Venture mania in Europe: Its causes and consequences

Schertler, Andrea; Stolpe, Michael - 2000

Over the course of the past twenty years, venture capital has fuelled an entrepreneurial revolution - first in the United States and now in Europe's common market -, which has opened new opportunities for technological innovation, capital investment and employment growth. Some of the most...

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Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Innovation

Vopel, Katrin; Scherer, Frederic M.; Narin, Francis; … - 1997

Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....

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The legal framework for corporate governance: explaining the development of contract law in Germany and the United States

Casper, Steven - 1998

jeweiligen politischen Ökonomie in Deutschland und in den USA führen zu unterschiedlichen Formen der Modernisierung des … innovationsorientierter Produktmarktstrategien.In den USA ist die juristische Kompetenz, gerade auch, was die Klärung juristischer … in den USA verhindert die Schaffung eines allgemein gültigenrechtlichen Rahmens, der wiederum Voraussetzung für eine …

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E.T. and innovation - science fiction or reality? An assessment of the impact of emissions trading on innovation

Gagelmann, Frank - 2003

schemes in the USA. The basic result from this review is that the innovation effects triggered by emissions trading have been …

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Population, Pensions, and Endogenous Economic Growth

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...

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Collusion through Joint R&D: An Empirical Assessment

Duso, Tomaso; Roeller, Lars-Hendrik; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2010

This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product market. We show that a sufficient condition for...

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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance

Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - 2011

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

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The birth of a new industry: Entry by start-ups and the drivers of firm growth. The case of encryption software

Giarratana, Marco S. - 2003

The paper analyses the birth of the Encryption Software Industry (ESI), a new niche in the software industry. Using a Chandlerian perspective, this work reports the main facts about firm entry and growth, with a particular focus on start-up strategies and actions. Since scale economies do not...

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