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Firms can purchase innovation results to improve their technology. In this context, the key to transfer success is … reasonably priced innovation results. Considering the match between innovation results and firm technology, this study analyzes … the nonlinear improvement effect of innovation results on technology. The pricing decision is then assessed by a game …
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This study moves along the recent research path started by Coe and Helpman (1995) which aims at unraveling the mechanics of spillovers in the economic growth of nations. Unlike many previous studies, which are mainly cross-sectional, our analysis focuses on the experience of Italy. The...
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Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …
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1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …
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Community Innovation Survey for Belgium. Specifically, we investigate the role of foreign affiliates’ local (host country …
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This paper suggests that contingent on the productivity level of the trade partner; international trade may create resource misallocation in less productive countries. It theoretically shows how productivity spillovers induced by trade with more productive countries and heterogeneity in...
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We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations, we show that while translations between Communist languages decreased by two thirds with the collapse,...
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After its accession to WTO on 2007, FDI inflow in Vietnam rose dramatically. Foreign investments are often presented somewhat uncritically as an opportunity for developing countries in terms of technological and capacity enhancement. If direct short termed benefits of FDI to economic growth is...
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In this paper, I present novel empirical evidence in support of the idea that FDI firms can act as an important driver of regional growth, by acting as a source of new knowledge and technologies to local suppliers in a host economy. For the analysis, I use unique firm level data that I obtained...
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