In this paper, a model of product innovation is developed that endogenizes the degree of cooperation. Two opposing forces affect firm profit in an R&D joint venture. Cooperation increases the quality of the product but it also makes the new products more similar. The increasing substitutability...

This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...

Eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für die Nutzung externen technologischen Wissens in Unternehmen ist deren Absorptionskapazität. Die Analyse zeigt, dass diese Kapazität entscheidend von der Innovationskompetenz des Unternehmens und seiner Mitarbeiter abhängt. Dabei spielt neben der...

Nach den Ergebnissen des ifo Innovationstests realisierten über 58% der Industrieunternehmen im Jahr 2004 Produkt- und/oder Prozessinnovationen. Darüber hinaus erhöhte sich im vergangenen Jahr der Umsatzanteil von Produktinnovationen in der Markteinführungsphase auf annähernd 11%, d.h. die...

Zur Achillesferse für eine sich belebende Innovationsdynamik sind neben der Entwicklung der Binnen nachfrage nun auch aufgrund des Euro-Höhenfluges die Exporte geworden. In diese Phalanx reihen sich außerdem eine eingeschränkte Kreditvergabe an kleine und mittlere Unternehmen sowie in...

We develop a dynamic duopoly model of R&D competition to improve the quality of a finalgood. The innovation process is sequential and cumulative, and takes place alongside productionin an infinite-horizon setting. In this context we study the R&D incentive impacts resultingfrom a “research...

This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...

This paper investigates whether the existence of knowledge spillovers, differences in the capacity of firms to assimilate them and disparities in some human resource management practices are related with the decision to innovate of Spanish firms. In order to do this, we employ data from the...

We investigate optimal rewards in an R&D model where substitute ideas for innovation arrive to random recipients at random times. By foregoing investment in a current idea, society as a whole preserves an option to invest in a better idea for the same market niche, but with delay. Because...