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CHALLENGES FOR THE FLEMISH AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES TO SUPPORT AN INNOVATIVE AND COMPETITIVE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR

Vuylsteke, Anne; Van Gijseghem, Dirk - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

Agriculture is faced by permanent evolution and it is expected that this trend will continue in the next decennium. The question is what challenges lie ahead and which types of agricultural research can support the sector in order to retain its competitive power by the year 2020. To address this...

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“SOCIAL AGRICULTURE”: A PATTERN BETWEEN FARM INNOVATION, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND MULTIFUNCTIONALITY

Macri, Maria Carmela; Perito, Maria Angela - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

least three different models can be applied: the well-established Schumpeterian model of innovation; the Corporate Social …

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FIRMS INNOVATION CAPABILITIES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON EXPORT PERFORMANCES

Korkmaz, Sezer; Ermec, AyÅŸegül; Yücedag, Nilüfer - In: Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences 9 (2009) 2, pp. 83-104

The aim of this paper is to test the proposition that the predetermined innovation capability dimensions can affect the … export performances of firms. For this purpose, firmsâ€™ innovation capabilities are considered in seven different dimensions … survey method. According to the results of statistical analysis, there is no significant differences in innovation …

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Patents in a Model of Endogenous Growth

O'Donoghue, Ted; Zweimüller, Josef - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 1998

This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is twofold. First, we show how the patent policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role of patents has been largely ignored. Second, we...

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Bigger is better: Market size, demand elasticity and innovation

Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen L. - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2008

This paper proposes a novel mechanism whereby larger markets increase competition and facilitate process innovation … break even. This facilitates process innovation as larger firms can amortize R&D costs over more goods. We demonstrate this … mechanism in a standard model of process and product innovation. In doing so, we question some important results in the new …

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Innovate or Imitate? Who Survives? Who Benefits? Agent-Based Modeling of a Technology-Driven Competitive Industry

Chen, Shu-Heng; Chang, Chia-Ling - In: Journal of Economics and Management 1 (2005) 2, pp. 143-162

In this paper, we study the behavior of innovation and imitation among a group of firms in a competitive industry. To …

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Share to Scare: Technology Sharing in the Absence of Intellectual Property Rights

Jansen, Jos - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2009

I study the incentives of Cournot duopolists to share their technologies with their competitor in markets where intellectual property rights are absent and imitation is costless. The trade-off between a signaling effect and an expropriation effect determines the technology-sharing incentives. In...

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Nicolescu, Ovidiu; Ceptureanu, Sebastian; Ceptureanu, Eduard - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2009) 11, pp. 41-41

Knowledge is seen in our day as the main driving force behind productivity,performance and economic growth, shifting the focus to information, technology andlearning and their role in economic performance. The growing codification of knowledgeand its transmission through communications and...

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Submarket Dynamics and Innovation: The Case of the U.S. Tire Industry

Buenstorf, Guido; Klepper, Steven - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009

shakeout using a novel data set on patenting in tires and production in the early 1920s of the cord tire, a key innovation we … also stimulate innovation and in the process reinforce the advantages of the leading incumbents, accentuating the shakeout …

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Human capital formation and global warming mitigation: evidence from an integrated assessment model

Carraro, Carlo; Cian, Enrica De; Tavoni, Massimo - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2009

capital makes it possible to assess the interplay between innovation, human capital, climate change, and education policies …

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