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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Claire, LELARGE - EconWPA - 2004

issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …

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Cash and the Counter: Capabilities and Preferences in the Demand for Banking Technologies

Consoli, Davide - EconWPA - 2005

trial-and-error and learning by consuming. The key question that is addressed is: how do consumers deal with innovation? By … bringing together a number of threads within the innovation literature my claim is that consumers, akin to firms, follow …

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Ideas for Growth?

Maré, David. C. - EconWPA - 2004

There is much talk of the knowledge economy, and the central role of ideas and knowledge in generating economic growth. This paper provides a brief review of the economic literature on how skills/ knowledge/ ideas might contribute to higher output or higher rates of growth. Ideas are...

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Competitive Advantages of the Beira Interior (Portugal): A TOWS Approach

Ferreira, Joao; Leitao, Joao; Raposo, Mario - EconWPA - 2005

The formulation of a competitive strategy implies an extended understanding, in terms of the industrial structures, of the mains fields where the nations compete and those structures evolve. The environmental conditions of a region, and of its industries, determine both the generic strategies,...

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Debilidades Metodológicas en la Medición de la Capacidad Innovadora de los Sistemas Regionales de Innovación en la UE

Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel Zabala; Sáez, Fernando Jiménez - EconWPA - 2005

La Innovación se ha convertido en uno de los principales pilares de la Unión Europea. En este sentido se manifiestan los acuerdos adoptados en las cumbres de Lisboa y de Barcelona (Consejo Europeo de Lisboa, 2000; Consejo Europeo de Barcelona, 2002). La realización de estudios de Benchmarking...

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When and why does it pay to be green ?

Ambec, S.; Lanoie, P. - Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée de Grenoble, … - 2007

The conventional wisdom about environmental protection is that it comes at an additional cost on firms imposed by the government, which may erode their global competitiveness. However, during the last decade, this paradigm has been challenged by a number of analysts. In particular, Porter...

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Complementary research strategies, first-mover advantage and the inefficiency of patents

Bonatti, Luigi - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2007

In a realistic framework where the potential innovators’ research lines are imperfectly correlated and imitation takes some time, this paper studies an industry regulated by an authority which can tax (subsidize) the firms’ pure profits (R&D expenditures). By comparing the market equilibrium...

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Does Licensing Resolve Hold Up in the Patent Thicket?

Siebert, Ralph; Graevenitz, Georg von - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In a patent thicket licensing provides a mechanism to either avoid or resolve hold up. We study the choice between ex ante licensing to avoid hold up and ex post licensing to resolve it. Firms’ choice of licensing contract is studied in the context of a patent portfolio race. We show that high...

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Política industrial e tecnológica e desenvolvimento

Matias Pereira, José - In: Observatorio de la Economía Latinoamericana (2004) 28

industrial and technological politics, having as base the knowledge and the technological innovation, to act as inductive of the … innovation and the exportations, serving as well as instrument of stimulation to the development of the country. To the end, we …

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Deregulation of Letter Markets and its Impact on Process and Product Innovation

Dietl, Helmut; Grütter, Andreas; Lutzenberger, Martin - In: Review of Network Economics 7 (2008) 2, pp. 231-246

Does the European model of end-to-end competition or the US model of worksharing provide stronger innovation incentives … differentiation. We find that incentives for process innovation in the upstream activities are stronger under end-to-end competition …. Incentives for process innovation in delivery are stronger under worksharing, assuming that the entrant's demand under …

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