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Trademark protection is a policy instrument situated at the core of firm marketing and innovation strategy. One … discusses implications for trademark policy, the use of trademarks as an innovation indicator and the economic returns from …
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We analyze how expropriation risk reduces incentives for innovation and reallocates resources from the innovative … risk, such as corruption, negatively impacts innovation by reducing R&D expenditure, human capital in R&D, number of … highlight the detrimental effects of expropriation risk on innovation and economic development at the country level …
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After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of … have been made of these data: the construction of scoreboards for monitoring innovation and the scholarly analysis of … various issues related to innovation. In particular, we review the questions examined and the results obtained regarding the …
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Purpose: emerging economies lead advanced economies in world investment but lag advanced economies in innovation. We … idiosyncratic risks to the innovation process and financial constraints. We parameterize the model in correspondence to general … emerging economies versus advanced economies and we compare total investment and the innovation-to-maintenance investment ratio …
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After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of … have been made of these data: the construction of scoreboards for monitoring innovation and the scholarly analysis of … various issue related to innovation. In particular we review the questions examined and the results obtained regarding the …
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We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
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This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...
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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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This paper develops a three-stage model of innovation, fixed-fee licensing and production to evaluate the welfare … effects of compulsory licensing, taking into account both static (information sharing) and dynamic (innovation incentive …
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Using a vertical differentiation model of endogenous growth with stochastic R&D activity, we characterise the optimal patent lifetime a government would set in order to maximise economic growth. We show that a finite patent lifetime does exist and is unique provided that the expected rate of...
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