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Two halves don't make a whole : instability and idleness emerging from the co-evolution of the production and innovation processes

Lobet, Corentin; Llerena, Patrick; Lorentz, André - 2024

model incorporates productivity dynamics (learning and depreciation) and is extended with time-saving process innovations … giving birth to idleness-driven innovations. In doing so, it allows us to question the status of labour as an adjustment …

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The genesis of the Black-Scholes option pricing formula

Heimer, Thomas (contributor); Arendt, Sebastian (contributor) - 2008

Innovations in the finance industry are an important tool to enhance profitability and to increase a nation's wealth …. It, therefore, is not astonishing that there is much empirical work on innovations in finance. Most of the work however … is concerned with the design of innovative products. The question on how innovations are established and pushed through …

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Spatial localization of knowledge-transfer channels and face-to-face contacts : a survey of the Jena university-industry linkages

Sauer, Thomas; Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang; Gerlach, Andrea - 2007

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Patent Hunters

Cohen, Lauren; Gurun, Umit G.; Moon, S. Katie; Suh, Paula - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Analyzing millions of patents granted by the USPTO between 1976 and 2020, we find a pattern where specific patents only rise to prominence after considerable time has passed. Amongst these late-blooming influential patents, we show that there are key players (patent hunters) who consistently...

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R&D incentives and spillovers in a two-industry model

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1991

This paper develops a two-industry model of R&D. A monopolist supplier sells an intermediate good to an oligopolistic buyer industry where firms compete in quantity and quality-enhancing R&D. The supplier can contribute to downstream product improvements by creating spillover knowledge which...

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Der Einfluß der Umweltpolitik auf das Innovationsverhalten : eine ökonometrische Untersuchung

Hemmelskamp, Jens - 1998

Im Beitrag werden, basierend auf den Daten des Mannheimer Innovationspanels 1993, die Einflußfaktoren umweltorientierter Innovationen in Deutschland in einem multivariaten Kontext ökonometrisch untersucht. Ziel ist es, sowohl allgemeine Strukturen der Einflußfaktoren von Umweltinnovationen zu...

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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?

Harhoff, Dietmar - 1996

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to cash flow for relatively small firms. Much of this...

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The size distribution of profits from innovation

Scherer, Frederic M. - 1996

The research reported in this paper seeks to determine how skewed the distribution of profits from technological innovation is - i.e., whether it conforms most closely to the Paretian, log normal, or some other distribution. The question is important, because high skewness makes it difficult to...

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Financing constraints, fixed capital and R&D investment decisions of belgian firms

Cincera, Michele - 2002

This paper aims at assessing the relationship between the possible existence of financial constraints and the decisions of Belgian private firms as regards their investments in both capital and R&D investments over the last decade. The main system GMM estimates from the error-correction...

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The role of medialabs in regional cultural and innovative policy

Klimczuk, Andrzej - 2013

Purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of a new cultural institution, "medialab". Media laboratory is an interdisciplinary institution that combines the tasks of scientific, educational, cultural and artistic institutions. They are spaces in which technology and digital media are...

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