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Intellectual Property Strategies and the Returns to R&D
Arora, Ashish; Ceccagnoli, Marco; Cohen, Wesley - 2000
other organizational factors influencing the productivity of R&D investments. A key result is that the effectiveness of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441081
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Financial Institutions and The Wealth of Nations: Tales of Development
Tong, Jian; Xu, Chenggang - 2004
Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the evolution of the financing regimes. The e?ectiveness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476788
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Patent Policy, R&D and Economic Growth.
Chu, Chi Ho Angus - 2008
calibration exercise also suggests that about 35% to 45% of the long-run total factor productivity growth in the US is driven by R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476911
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Globalization and the Determinants of Innovation in BRICS versus OECD Economies: A Macroeconomic Study
Khan, Abdullah M.; Roy, Priya A. - 2011
This study examines the influence of select macroeconomic variables and globalization variables on the volume of patented innovations in five industrialized OECD countries (the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Japan, and Australia) and in five emerging countries known as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459031
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Essays on Durable Goods Consumption and Firm Innovation
Rong, Zhao - 2008
This dissertation comprises three individual chapters. Chapter Two examines how free riding across neighbors influenced the diffusion of color television sets in rural China. Chapter Three tests for asymmetric information between a firm’s management and other investors concerning its patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460485
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Determinants of investment in tangible and intangible fixed assets
García-Posada, Miguel; Menéndez Pujadas, Álvaro; … - 2020
En este documento investigamos las características empresariales que están asociadas con la inversión en activos fijos tangibles e intangibles, prestando especial atención al caso de la I+D, y las fuentes de financiación que se utilizan en cada tipo de inversión. Respecto a las...
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Cost effectiveness of R&D and strategic trade policy
Kujal, Praveen; Ruiz Pérez, Juan Manuel - 2007
This paper analyzes the incentives for governments to impose export subsidies when firms invest in a cost saving technology before market competition. Governments first impose an export subsidy or a tax. After observing export policy, firms invest in cost reducing R&D and subsequently compete in...
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R&D investment and endogenous growth : a SVAR approach
Estrada García, Angel; Montero Montero, José Manuel - 2009
We develop the barebones of a highly stylized theoretical endogenous growth model for analyzing the impact of R&D investment on long run growth. We use this framework to identify a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model on GDP growth, inflation and R&D investment, along with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530269
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Understanding the Spanish business innovation gap : the role of spillovers and firms' absorptive capacity
López García, Paloma; Montero Montero, José Manuel - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530302
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Business cycles and investment in intangibles : evidence from Spanish firms
López García, Paloma; Montero, José Manuel; …
theory, productivity-enhancing activities, such as R&D investment, should increase during downturns because of the fall in …-term impact on productivity growth. In the spirit of Aghion et al. (2007) we allow the impact of the cycle on R&D to vary between … is optimal for them. We go one step further and explore whether other productivity-enhancing activities, like on …
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