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on Innovation |
| By: | Kresimir Zigic (CERGE-EI) |
| Keywords: | dynamic duopoly, R&D spillovers, persistence of monopoly, strategic predation, accommodation |
| JEL: | L12 L13 L41 |
| Date: | 2006–07–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sce:scecfa:516&r=ino |
| By: | Rene Belderbos; Kyoji Fukao; Hyeog Ug Kwon |
| Abstract: | We develop a model of the location of global R&D investments by multinational firms, where research investments increase the number of varieties of goods sold globally by the firm, and development activities reduce the cost of producing existing varieties in specific countries. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection in a country enhances the efficiency of the firms' local research as well as the profitability local development efforts. We test predictions of the model on survey data on foreign and domestic R&D for 605 Japanese multinational firms with manufacturing activities in 42 foreign countries in 1996. We find the strength of IPR protection to have a positive impact both on development expenditures and research expenditures in a country, while both research and development expenditures are also sensitive to local wage costs. Research expenditures depend positively on technological opportunities in the industry and country, while development expenditures are positively affected by potential local demand for the firm's products. |
| Keywords: | R&D, multinational firms, Foreign Direct Investment |
| JEL: | F23 O32 |
| Date: | 2006–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hst:hstdps:d06-167&r=ino |
| By: | Emmanuel MULLER; Arlette JAPPE; Jean-Alain HERAUD; Andrea ZENKER |
| Date: | 2006 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ulp:sbbeta:2006-18&r=ino |
| By: | Boivin, Caroline; Langinier, Corinne |
| Abstract: | Licensing a new technology implies introducing competition into the market. This has a negative effect on the profit of the incumbent if the demand remains unchanged. However, because of the novel content of an innovation, consumers may have different perceptions of the value of a good depending on the market structure. Thus, the introduction of a competitor into the market may enhance demand, and consequently have a positive effect on the profit of the incumbent. In a simple setting, we show that the incumbent may decide to license her technology even in the absence of a royalty when the positive effect outweighs the negative one. |
| JEL: | L1 |
| Date: | 2005–09–19 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:isu:genres:12414&r=ino |
| By: | Isamel Rafols (SPRU, University of Sussex); Martin Meyer (SPRU, University of Sussex) |
| Keywords: | interdisciplinarity, collaboration, bionanotechnology, research, knowledge-sourcing, molecular motors |
| JEL: | O32 L65 |
| Date: | 2006–07–05 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sru:ssewps:152&r=ino |
| By: | Massimo FLORIO; Emanuele OZZIMO |
| Abstract: | In this paper we discuss the challenges for the European SMEs fac ing increased global competition, and how it is possible to desig n innovative strategies through the new Regional Competitiveness and Employment Objective. First, the paper offers an assessment o f the importance of SMEs in the EU context and particularly in th e regions concerned by the new objective. Second, the paper will discuss how globalisation poses a serious thread to this developm ent pattern. Third, we briefly explain why further labour market and product liberalisation policies probably have a limited poten tial. Fourth, there is a wide empirical literature, and a lot of practical experience, on innovation strategies for SMEs and clust ers in Europe. The paper will offer a critical assessment of thes e findings and will suggest how to make the best use of the limit ed, but critical, resources available under the new Regional Comp etitiveness Objective. |
| Keywords: | EU Structural funds, SMEs, Clusters, Innovation strategies |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mil:wpdepa:2006-16&r=ino |
| By: | Svend Ole Madsen (Department of Environmental and Business Economics, University of Southern Denmark); Ole Stegmann Mikkelsen (Danfoss A/S, Denmark) |
| Abstract: | This article focuses partly on the interaction between a company headquarter and the divisions and partly on how new IT technologies can influence this process. Specifically, the influence of a newly developed Data Warehouse sys-tem organization of supply is investigated. Based on earlier perspectives, such as core competence and portfolio perspectives, the interactions are examined, and a third perspective, in which elements of the two are coordinated and inte-grated, is introduced. Based on a single case study of Danfoss A/S, the new IT opportunities are then used to illustrate the implications on the organisation of purchasing activities. |
| Keywords: | Strategic purchasing, multinational companies (MNCs), Informa-tion, Communication and Technology (ICT), organisational development |
| Date: | 2004–08 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sdk:wpaper:57&r=ino |
| By: | Alexandre Dmitriev (Dept. d'Economia i d'Historia Economica Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) |
| Keywords: | Incentive compatibility, technological diffusion, international capital flows, default risk, numerical algorithm. |
| JEL: | C63 F34 O33 |
| Date: | 2006–07–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sce:scecfa:248&r=ino |