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concepts, definitions and methodology for the measurement of business innovation, providing guidelines by which comparable … innovation indicators can be developed in OECD countries to inform analytical and policy questions. Based on the experience of … innovation surveys conducted prior to its publication, the guidelines provided a framework for methodological convergence and …
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This report brings together the results of the OECD assessment of the current R&D system in place, with the purpose of mapping the different administrating schemes and its objectives, the target groups, the funding streams and the legal frameworks. The schemes/programmes identified by the...
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This paper empirically investigates the potential determinants of business-sector R&D intensity using a panel of OECD countries for the period of 1970-2002 with data measured as five-year year averages. Estimates using a system GMM estimator controlling for endogeneity show a high degree of...
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We introduce a new type of heavy-tailed distribution, the normal reciprocal inverse Gaussian distribution (NRIG), to the GARCH and Glosten-Jagannathan-Runkle (1993) GARCH models, and compare its empirical performance with two other popular types of heavy-tailed distribution, the Student's t...
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using productivity and innovation data but has not directly assessed the effectiveness of R&D policy in promoting innovation …
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We investigate the optimal R&D portfolio of a single-product monopolist investing in cost-reducing activities accompanied by efforts improving the quality of its product. There emerges that the firm's relative incentives along the two directions are conditional upon market affluency, measured by...
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We extend a well known differential oligopoly game to encompass the possibility for production to generate a negative environmental externality, regulated through Pigouvian taxation and price caps. We show that, if the price cap is set so as to fix the tolerable maximum amount of emissions, the...
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We examine the relationship between competition and innovation in an industry where production is polluting and R …&D aims to reduce emissions ("green" innovation). We present an n-firm oligopoly where firms compete in quantities and decide …
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This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness at the level of sectors and firms. First, we address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed...
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This paper investigates the determinants of innovative activities and the innovation-performance relationship for the … innovation. After controlling for ownership types, industry and regional fixed-effects, key findings include: (i) R&D and … innovation activities not only stimulate firms' profitability and growth of sales, but also increase their survival propensity …
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