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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Innovation incentives"”.
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Innovation incentives and competition in the hard disk drive industry
… We explore various determinants of the product innovation incentives for firms concerned with both their static and expected future profitability. We estimate the observed innovation outcomes as a function of market condition variables which have significant impact on innovation decisions. In …
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Perspectives on Innovation Incentives on the EU Pharmaceutical Sector with Focus on EMA and Parallel Trade
… have been identified and support for a more innovation friendly environment has been expressed. The thesis examines the incentives for Originator Pharmaceutical Companies’ to innovate new medicinal products in the light of parallel trade and European Medicine Agency’s (“EMA”) access to …
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Essays on health economics and innovation
… studied the impact of competition on incremental innovation in the pharmaceutical context. Research and development is not a linear process that ends when a patent is granted. Instead, pioneer innovators continue innovating after their product has been patented. We study how competition affects …
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Tapping into the pulse of the market : essays on marketing implications of information flows
… be created to improve social welfare. Essay 1: Innovation Incentives for Information Goods. Digital goods can be reproduced costlessly.
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Essays on technological change and innovation games
… of this dissertation is to provide a theory of innovation and technological change incorporating the following aspects; (i) the impact of the existence of substitutes and complements on the innovation incentives in presence of technological externalities, in a Cournot Nash game theoretic …
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Indonesia’s Patent Law at a Crossroads: Can Indonesia Implement a Constitutional Patent Law in the TRIPS and TRIPS-plus Era?
… from these inventions. The combination of the innovation incentives and social functions has led some scholars to theorise a “social contract” foundation of patent law. In recent days, there has been a shift of focus of patent law from its incentive and social functions into providing strong …
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Dynamic Models of Innovation and Learning
… dissertation analyzes three dynamic models of innovation. The primary focus of the analysis of each model is to highlight the role of endogenous mechanisms---such as observational learning and product market competition---in determining firms' R&D incentives, the speed of innovation, and the …
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Regulation of complex adaptive digital systems: optimizing competition and consumer welfare outcomes in Nigeria's converging telecommunications market
… competing objectives of competition, investment, innovation, and consumer welfare. The author deployed the conceptual framework to analyze the evidence for the case rather than for purposes of theoretical contestation or theory building. Therefore, the thesis methodology leans towards an inductive …
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Empirical Essays on Inventors, Workers and Firms
… gain insights into the mechanisms at play when incentives for production and location decisions change. Chapter 1 asks whether financial incentives can induce inventors to innovate more. I exploit a large reduction in the patent fee in the United Kingdom in 1884 to distinguish between its effect …