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We study the patterns of engagement in collaborative research among university researchers. We investigate how frequently researchers engage in collaborative research with third parties, as well as the factors that affect the probability of interacting with industry as compared to other types of...
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We consider a sample of IT managers in SMEs in Italy and investigate what influences their evaluation of the objectives of, the obstacles to and the drivers of ICT adoption. Our results show that adoption decisions are highly path-dependent, as managers' perceptions of the benefits of...
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The rise of Fast Ethernet as the dominant standard for high-speed connection in the Local Area Networking industry is chosen to study the interaction between increasing returns to adoption and technical change in innovation diffusion. Contrary to most of the empirical papers on diffusion with...
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We study the impact of demand on innovation. By focusing on a sample of small- and medium-sized enterprises in several industries and European countries, we analyse how demand stimulates innovation by providing economic incentives and reducing uncertainty. Considering the size of the market as a...
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We study the impact of demand on innovation. By focussing on a sample of SMEs in several industries and European countries, we analyse how demand stimulates innovation both by providing economic incentives and by reducing uncertainty. Considering the size of the market as a proxy for the...
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We provide evidence on the influence of expectations and network effects on the timing of technological adoption. By considering a sample of SMEs operating in Italy we focus on the determinants of their decision to adopt Fast Ethernet, a communication standard for Local Area Networks (LANs). We...
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We use patent citation networks to study the dynamics of technical change in Ethernet, a standard for data communication. We first consider the evolution of the broad technological system of Local Area Networks (LANs) and we identify the most significant inventions within the specific subfield...
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A large number of works have studied university-industry relationships either from a qualitative point of view or relying on a case study of a single university. The aim of this paper is to provide some statistical evidence at the cross-country, cross-industry level to verify some of the...
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