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Should we give up after Solyndra? : optimal technology R&D portfolios under uncertainty

Webster, Mort; Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Popp, David; … - 2015

Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...

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Intergenerational hybrids : spillbacks, spillforwards, and adapting to technology discontinuities

Furr, Nathan R.; Snow, Daniel - In: Organization science : a journal of the Institute for … 26 (2015) 2, pp. 475-493

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Are ex ante and ex post licensing agreements useful instruments to lessen uncertainty in R&D?

Siebert, Ralph - 2013

In the last decades, technologies became more complex which increased the degree of uncertainty in R&D. To overcome the uncertainty, firms frequently engage in R&D collaborations, e.g., Research Joint Ventures (RJVs), and licensing agreements. While RJVs are well explored in the literature, very...

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Why put all your eggs in one basket? : a competition-based view of how technological uncertainty affects a firm's technological specialization

Toh, Puay Khoon; Kim, Taekyu - In: Organization science : a journal of the Institute for … 24 (2013) 4, pp. 1214-1236

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Endogenously increasing uncertainties and governance

Kovács, Olivér - 2014

This contribution argues that uncertainty is integrated into the modern economic systems; however its autochthonously increasing feature is puzzling and should be addressed in a more dedicated way. Behind the curtain of increasing uncertainty, we purport to demonstrate that at least the...

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Trapped in the "zero-risk" society and how to break free

Sornette, Didier; Cauwels, Peter - 2020

We live in a ‘zero-risk society', characterized by a culture that is obsessed with controlling and removing any possible risks. Obviously, one of the fundamental objectives of any civilization is to improve the safety and security of its citizens. However, we should not let the cozy comfort...

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie …