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Histoire des entreprises et approches globales. Quelles convergences ?

Asselain, Jean-Charles - In: Revue économique 58 (2007) 1, pp. 153-172

an Michael Porter show it. They both agree on determining part of innovation dynamics, but the second, unlike the first …

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Patents and Industrialization: An Historical Overview of the British Case, 1624-1907 w

MacLeod, Christine; Nuvolari, Alessandro - Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola … - 2010

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the research on the role played by patent systems in the industrialization process (with a special focus on the British case). Perhaps surprisingly, no consensus has been reached yet as to whether the emergence of modern patent systems exerted a...

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How perceived security appears in the commercialisation of internet banking

Mattila, Anssi; Mattila, Minna - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 1 (2005) 1, pp. 89-101

Security has been widely recognised as one of the main barriers to the adoption of internet innovation. Many studies …

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R&D and firm growth rate variance

Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 702-708

Investment in R&D is positively associated with the variance of sales growth and, to a lesser extent, employment growth. The magnitude of this effect has not increased in recent decades, however.

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Innovation Contests with Entry Auction

Giebe, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We consider procurement of an innovation from heterogeneous sellers. Innovations are random but depend on unobservable … admission to an innovation contest. After the contest, an innovation is procured employing either a fixed prize or a first …

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Fibonacci Hierarchies for Decision Making

Yucel, Eray; Tokel, Emre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

All decisions are practically made within a chainwise social setup named a decision-making chain (DMC). This paper considers some cases of an idea (a project proposal) propagating through an organizational DMC. Survival of a proposal through successive links of the DMC depends on the relative...

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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010

We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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Fiddling while carbon burns: why climate policy needs pervasive emission pricing as well as technology promotion

Pezzey, John C.V.; Jotzo, Frank; Quiggin, John - Risk and Sustainable Management Group (RSMG), School of … - 2006

Effective climate policy requires global emissions of greenhouse gases to be cut drastically, which in energy sectors can be achieved by lower emissions supply technologies, greater energy use efficiency, and substitution in demand. For policy to be efficient requires fairly uniform, pervasive...

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Incentives for energy efficiency in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Schleich, Joachim; Rogge, Karoline S.; Betz, Regina - Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und … - 2008

This paper explores the incentives for energy efficiency induced by the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) for installations in the energy and industry sectors. Our analysis of the National Allocation Plans for 27 EU Member States for phase 2 of the EU ETS (2008-2012) suggests that...

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The key dimensions of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) analysis: a decade of evolution

Muller, Emmanuel; Doloreux, David - Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und … - 2007

The importance of knowledge and innovation in modern economies justifies the in-creasing interest that scholars are … topic into three key conceptual dimensions: (i) knowledge; (ii) inno-vation and (iii) spatial proximity. The major …

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