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Sectors and knowledge creation, accumulation and diffusion
2006-02. Does it matter where patent citations come from?
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 8 May, 2006 - 14:30.
This paper investigates whether the distinction between patent citations added by the inventor or the examiner is relevant for the issue of geographical concentration of knowledge flows (as embodied in citations). The distinction between inventor and examiner citations enables us to work with a more refined citation indicator of knowledge flows. read more »
2006-01. The interactions between national systems and sectoral patterns of innovation
Submitted by Bart Verspagen on 17 January, 2006 - 20:38.
Do national and sectoral innovation systems interact with each other? The paper explores this unexplored question by carrying out a cross-sector cross-country analysis of European systems of innovation in the 1990s. The empirical study takes Pavitt’s (1984) taxonomy as a starting point, and it investigates the cross-country variability of Pavitt’s sectoral patterns of innovation. read more »
2006-5 : Innovation and Firm Growth in High-Tech Sectors: A quantile regression approach
Submitted by Bruno Chaves on 30 March, 2007 - 16:01.
We relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in four high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only modest growth and may grow for a number of reasons that may or may not be related to 'innovativeness'. read more »
2006-4 : Innovations networks in sensor technology development
Submitted by Bruno Chaves on 30 March, 2007 - 15:58.
The Netherlands holds a strong position in fundamental sensor technology research, but this is not obviously translated into an internationally competitive sensor industry. In this paper we investigate whether sensor technology firms collaborate with external organizations, especially those related to public R&D. read more »
Koen Dittrich, Erik Stam
2006-3 : Public policy in the dynamics of industries: a history friendly model of the co-evolution of computers and semiconducto
Submitted by Bruno Chaves on 30 March, 2007 - 15:37.
Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Sidney Winter
2006-2 : Nanotechnology as a general purpose technology of the 21st century? - An overview with focus on Finland
Submitted by Bruno Chaves on 30 March, 2007 - 15:24.
Hardly any other field has received so much public R&D investments globally in such a short time as nanotechnology. Nanotechnology can be considered as an umbrella term for R&D at the nanometer scale (1-100 nm) where unique phenomena enable novel applications.
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Christopher Palmberg and Tuomo Nikulainen
2006-1 : Entrepreneurship and the process of firms' entry, survival and growth
Submitted by Bruno Chaves on 30 March, 2007 - 15:19.
This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic entrepreneurial foundations of industrial dynamics (entry and exit) and to characterise the founder's ex-ante features in terms of likely ex-post business performance. read more »
Enrico Santarelli, Marco Vivarelli