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Scholars examining the effect of knowledge spillovers on R&D and innovation all agree on one thing-there is a strong relationship between the firm's R&D effort and knowledge spillover. The sign of this relationship depends, however, on many things, such as the type of spillovers (horizontal,...
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. Our evidence, which builds on a database that matches research institutions to a sample of their patent applications …, indicates patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) filed by research institutions grew faster than industry … patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …
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interventions such as government-sponsored patent funds. This document briefly reviews some key features of the markets and networks …
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We analyse determinants of an enterprise's decision to offshore R&D activities using a novel data set for enterprises in Ireland over the period 2001-2006. Our results suggest that, on average, other things equal, enterprises integrated in international production and innovation networks, and...
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semiconductor value chain. Results for 21 large firms operating across the semiconductor value chain indicate that total government … equity appears to be particularly large in the context of the semiconductor industry and concentrated in one jurisdiction … subsidy disciplines in a context of growing government involvement in semiconductor production and poor transparency of …
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Private sector R&D is largely concentrated in a few multinational companies (MNCs), which thus play an important role in the creation of knowledge and technology in the economy. The mobility of labor between these firms and the rest of the economy is therefore an important mechanism for the...
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Existing evidence on the impact of foreign direct investment on domestic economies remains ambiguous. Positive technology spillovers of foreign investment may be outweighed by negative crowding out effect due to increased competition. In this paper, we employ a unique country/sector-level data...
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-ups. As to their performance, start-ups founded by researchers are more likely to patent and those founded by students …
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