This paper focuses on whether differences in structural conditions, as embodied in the distribution of built-in preferences of agents towards an innovation, in conjunction with interdependencies in their adoption decisions, 'systematically' and 'predictably' translate into differential rates of...

Scientific and technological knowledge is increasingly recognized as a keystone of economic growth and social development. This paper reviews the main components of policy reform strategies designed to increase the efficiency of investments in science and techbology, with specific reference to...

L'innovation technologique apparait aujourd'hui comme un determinant de la competitivite. De fait l'analyse strategique a, ces dernieres annees, de plus en plus integre cette dimention. Pourtant paradoxe, meme si les analyses sur la technologie ont eu tendance a se multiplier, connait-on...

We study the role of information sources on innovation decision in a two stage sequential probit model. In the first stage, firms decide to innovate or not, while in the second stage they choose the mode of innovation. We estimate parameters of this model in a Bayesian framework in which we use...

The main purpose in this paper is to study to what extent accessibility to R&D can explain patent production. Therefore a knowledge production function is estimated both on aggregated level and for different industrial sectors. The output of the knowledge production is the number patent...

According to Schumpeter, the creative process of economic development can be divided into three distinguishable stages of invention, innovation (commercialization) and imitation. We show why there is a rationale for the Schumpeterian entrepreneur to also include the inventor in the innovation...

According to Schumpeter, the creative process of economic development can be divided into three distinguishable stages of invention, innovation (commercialization) and imitation. We show why there is a rationale for the Schumpeterian entrepreneur to also include the inventor in the innovation...

Economists and politicians in Sweden stated in the early 1990s that devaluations of the country's currency had lessened the external pressure on manufacturing and led to a delay in structural change and rationalizations. The theory of transformation pressure generalizes the idea that...