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Why Germany Has Such a Weak Growth Performance

Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

Germany has had an extremely low growth performance since 1995. The paper looks at the long-run reasons for this loss of economic dynamics besides German unification: These include leaving labor idle, a declining share of investment in GDP, a weaker innovative activity, an ineffective system for...

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Brain Drain, R&D-Cost Differentials and the Innovation Gap

Mariani, Fabio - In: Recherches économiques de Louvain 74 (2008) 3, pp. 251-272

of education still experience notable differences in terms of R&D and innovation. High-skilled migration, ultimately … capital accumulation and innovation are strategic complements, we show that allowing labor outflows may strengthen educational …

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Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1

Jaffe, Adam B.; Lerner, Josh; Stern, Scott - The MIT Press

interactions between public policy and the innovation process. Discussions will cover all types of policy that affect the ability …

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The role of entrepreneurial culture and human capital in innovation

Pizarro, Isabel; Real, Juan C.; Rosa, M. Dolores de la - Departamento de Dirección de Empresas, Universidad … - 2009

the value and uniqueness of employees’ knowledge (human capital) in generating innovation. This research has been …) technique. The results demonstrate significant relationships between innovation and the two dimensions of the human capital .We … have also found that entrepreneurial culture acts as a moderating variable between human capital and innovation, in the way …

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Downstream market structure and the incentive for innovation in telecommunication infrastructure

Czernich, Nina - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2008

level of the mark-up is determined by a regulator who aims at promoting innovation. It can be shown that the network …

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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We develop a theory of commercialization mode (entry or sale) of entrepreneurial inventions into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Moreover, preemptive...

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Services outsourcing and innovation: An empirical investigation

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …

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Innovation Behaviour At Farm Level – Selection And Identification

Sauer, Johannes; Zilberman, David - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2009

of peer-group behaviour, and a positive impact of previous innovation experiences. …

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O atraso tecnológico da América Latina como decorrência de aspectos geográficos e de fatores microeconômicos interligados

Feldmann, Paulo Roberto - In: Revista Economia e Sociedade 36 (2009) 4, pp. 21-21

The technological backwardness of Latin America as a consequence of geographical and microeconomics related factors - The present paper deals with the relation between geographical conditions in a specific region and the occurrence of innovations. The objective is to analyze the reasons for the...

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¿A quién beneficia el comercio paralelo de medicamentos en la Unión Europea?

Costa-Font, Joan; Kanavos, Panos - In: El Trimestre Económico LXXVI (2) (2009) 302, pp. 331-347

the induced costs to drug innovation.// El comercio paralelo constituye un movimiento legal (arbitraje comercial) de …

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