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Research Scientist Productivity and Firm Size: Evidence from Panel Data on Investors

Marschke, Gerald; Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Sangjoon John - University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Economics - 2004

of workers specifically engaged in innovation and firm size in the pharmaceutical and semiconductor industries. In both …

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An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment: Definition and Results for the UK Market Sector

Clayton, Tony; Dal Borgo, Mariela; Haskel, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole …-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we … could get more GDP without innovation by simply duplicating existing physical capital and labour (e.g. adding a second …

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Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster

Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

that reduce incentives to invest in new knowledge. Using a formal model of innovation we identify conditions where the … innovation benefits of job-hopping exceed the costs from reduced incentives to invest in human capital. These conditions likely …. Consistent with our model of innovation, we also find that outside of the computer industry, California’s mobility rates are no …

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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DETERMINANTS OF FOOD INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE – SURVEY DATA AND REGRESSIONS FOR DENMARK

Furtan, William Hartley; Sauer, Johannes - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2008

This paper investigates empirically the determinants of firms’ performance in the agrifood sector by using recent survey data for Denmark. Treating sales per employee as a proxy for value added we estimate several bootstrapped regression models to draw conclusions on the marginal effects of...

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Fiddling while carbon burns: why climate policy needs emission pervasive pricing as well as technology promotion

Pezzey, John C.V.; Jotzo, Frank; Quiggin, John C. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2007

Effective climate policy requires global emissions of greenhouse gases to be cut substantially, which in energy sectors can be achieved by lower emissions supply technologies, greater energy use efficiency, and substitution in demand. For policy to be efficient requires fairly uniform, pervasive...

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Knowledge Production in Nanomaterials : An Application of Spatial Filtering to Regional Systems of Innovation

Grimpe, Christoph; Patuelli, Roberto - USI Università della Svizzera italiana - 2008

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

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Regional Economies, Innovation and Competitiveness in a System Dynamics Representation

Fratesi, Ugo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2004

process of innovation, needed to be successful. The model also shows in a new framework how, due to the cumulative nature of … this innovation process, it is possible to obtain equilibria with regional income di®erentiation, even in the presence of …

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Albert O. Hirschman on Economic Evolution

Calafati, Antonio G. - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2000

In this paper it will be argued that Albert O. Hirschman’s research work is a remarkable instance of a methodological shift that began in the Fifties, and of which there seems to be scarce awareness nowadays notwithstanding its relevance for some of the issues that are in the agenda of...

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