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Ex-ante licensing in sequential innovations
Comino, Stefano; Manenti, Fabio M.; Nicolò, Antonio - In: Games and Economic Behavior 73 (2011) 2, pp. 388-401
The theoretical literature on the cumulative innovation process has emphasized the role of ex-ante licensing – namely, licensing agreements negotiated before the follow-on innovator has sunk its R&D investment – in mitigating the risk of hold-up of future innovations. In this paper, we...
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Chapter 4. Fifty Years of Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity and Performance
Cohen, Wesley M. - 2010
This chapter reviews the empirical literature on the determination of firms’ and industries’ innovative activity and performance, highlighting the questions addressed, the approaches adopted, impediments to progress in the field, and research opportunities. We review the...
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Chapter 5. The Economics of Science
Stephan, Paula E. - 2010
This chapter examines the contributions that economists have made to the study of science and the types of contributions the profession is positioned to make in the future. Special emphasis is placed on the public nature of knowledge and characteristics of the reward structure that encourage the...
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Chapter 22. The Economics of Innovation and Technical Change in Agriculture
Pardey, Philip G.; Alston, Julian M.; Ruttan, Vernon W. - 2010
Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter we highlight differences arising from (a) the atomistic nature of agricultural production, (b) the spatial specificity of agricultural technologies and the implications for...
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Globalisierung von Forschung und Entwicklung der weltweit forschungsstärksten Unternehmen
Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 101 (2021) 7, pp. 521-528
Mit Patentdaten der weltweit forschungsstärksten Unternehmen lassen sich Informationen über die regionale und … Internationalisierung. Unternehmen betreiben Forschung und Entwicklung im Ausland überwiegend in technologischen Feldern, wo sie bereits … stark sind und der ausländische Standort über Vorteile verfügt. Die wichtigsten Heimatländer forschender Unternehmen sind …
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Productivity and economic growth in the European Union : impact of investment in research and development
Nekrep, Andreja; Strašek, Sebastjan; Boršič, Darja - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 64 (2018) 1, pp. 18-27
This paper focuses on investment in research and development as a factor of labour productivity and economic growth. Our analysis confirms the link between expenditure for research and development (expressed in % of GDP) and labour productivity (expressed in the number of hours worked) based on...
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Firm heterogeneity in competition among the big and the small
Fujiwara, Kenji - In: Bulletin of economic research 76 (2024) 1, pp. 147-166
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What happened to us business dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - In: Journal of political economy 131 (2023) 8, pp. 2059-2124
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Optimal licensing of uncertain patents in the shadow of litigation
Amir, Rabah; Encaoua, David; Lefouili, Yassine - In: Games and Economic Behavior 88 (2014) C, pp. 320-338
This paper investigates the choice of a licensing mechanism by the holder of a patent whose validity is uncertain. We provide sufficient conditions of a general nature under which the licensor prefers to use a per-unit royalty contract. In particular we show that this is the case for the holders...
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Identification in ascending auctions, with an application to digital rights management
Freyberger, Joachim; Larsen, Bradley J. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 2, pp. 505-543
This study provides new identification and estimation results for ascending (traditional English or online) auctions with unobserved auction‐level heterogeneity and an unknown number of bidders. When the seller's reserve price and two order statistics of bids are observed, we derive conditions...
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