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costs and benefits of alternative institutional arrangements. The cases he chose generally involved technical innovation … which produced new benefits as well as harmful effects, producing many insights into how society responds to innovation …
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other arguments, it is asserted that net neutrality rules are necessary for application innovation. While the focus for … achieve their innovation goals. The article summaries a specific research investigation to what degree the introduction of … rules in a given country stimulates innovation in that country’s mobile app ecosystem. The focus in on mobile networks …
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Abstract Innovation is fundamental to sustainable economic development because input resources are finite. When an … economy faces constraints such as land and labour, innovation fuels continued growth through new technologies that utilises … which typically examines how market structure affects innovation, this paper explores how innovation affects the market …
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laws to influence innovative activity. Our findings suggest that although certain labour laws foster innovation, its … complementarities with political federalism end up dampening innovation. These results call into question the widely held view of the … innovation-enhancing effects of labour laws and suggest that the hitherto unaddressed political channel might have an important …
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Abstract Purpose This study aims to examine how piracy via peer-to-peer (P2P) network affects sales of original version in the video game industry. Design/methodology/approach This study conducted an online questionnaire survey in 2009 with a focus on 9970 users of portable video game platforms,...
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Abstract According to the economic theory of patents, patents are needed so that pioneer firm have time to recoup their sunk costs of research and development. The key element in the economic theory is that pioneer firms have large, hard to recoup, sunk costs. Yet patents are not awarded on the...
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This paper examines the importance of competition in innovation and the growth of firms. We make use of the large … that influence innovation by firms and their subsequent growth, thereby alleviating problems due to non-random clustering … of innovation opportunities in mature market economies. We find evidence that monopolies innovate less and have weaker …
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Abstract Different industrializing experiences beginning on innovation or education could be explained not only by … sequence of the phases of development that the economy follows; in particular, whether innovation precedes education or vice …
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