r&d

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate how regional advantages and firms characteristics

The authors analyze the relationship between cost-effectiveness measures and the degree of surplus appropriation by innovators driving dynamic efficiency.

The authors draw on the technological opportunity, appropriability, and demand framework suggested by Cohen and Klepper (1996) to develop a simple model of foreign and domestic R&D investment. The empirical results confirm that the foreign R&D ratio depends on relative technological opportunities, relative demand conditions, and a proxy for firm-level R&D productivity.

The authors analyze a simple oligopoly model where firms can engage in cost-reducing R&D. They compare two R&D regimes, that is, R&D competition and R&D cooperation where firms can enter in a Research Joint Venture.

The paper uses a simple two-firm asymmetric ability multistage R&D race model to analyse the effect of different types of patent policy regimes and licensing arrangement on the speed of innovation, firm value and consumers surplus. The paper demonstrates the circumstances under which a weak patent protection regime, which, according to the authors, facilitates free imitation of any intermediate technology, may yield a higher overall surplus than a regime that awards patent for the final innovation.

This paper studies the impact of global factors on patterns of basic research across countries and time. The authors construct a stylized model, predicting that lagged relative GDP of a country relative to the GDP of all countries engaging in basic research is an important explanatory variable of country’s share of prizes.

Among the most important results of the PILOT project are the following: The project established that most

The paper uses a simple two-firm asymmetric ability multistage R&D race model to analyse the effect of different types of patent policy regimes and licensing arrangement on the speed of innovation, firm value and consumers surplus. The paper demonstrates the circumstances under which a weak patent protection regime, which facilitates free imitation of any intermediate technology, may yield a higher overall surplus than a regime that awards patent for the final innovation.

For the third consecutive year, industrial support of U.S. academic research dropped, according to the InfoBrief from the National Science Foundation. The 2.6 percent decrease in fiscal year 2004 from the previous year is the sharpest yet in the three-year trend, following a 1.1 percent reduction in FY 2003 and 1.6 percent in FY 2002.

This paper concerns offshore R&D investments, focusing mainly on large multinational companies within the industrialized world. The authors examine the following questions: What do we know about offshore R&D activities regarding trends, scope and destinations, driving forces and constraints? and; What do we know about consequences for the R&D investing company, as well as for national systems of innovation, regional R&D
externalities, agglomeration and urban economies of home and host countries as well?