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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"R&D investment"”.
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The impact of capital market imperfections on capital and R&D Investment and financial decisions
… issues pertaining to the evolution of a firms’ investment – cash flow sensitivity (ICFS hereafter), the evolution of a firms’ research and development (R&D) ICFS and the determinants of a firms’ R&D investment over total investment1 (R&D/TINV) ratio. This thesis uses non-financial US and UK …
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The development of visualized risk-informed tradespace exploration (vRITE) for R&D investment decision-making
… if they underestimate the risks of a technology, investment may lead to costly and embarrassing overruns. Unfortunately, the existing approaches that decision-makers use to help them understand their options are often inadequate and do not tell the full story.
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Is there a case for an augmented Tobin’s Q model of R&D investment? Investigating the role of market structure, knowledge spillovers and corporate governance quality
The determinants of R&D investment at firm-level have been a topic of interest for economists for a long time. However, our knowledge of the firm’s R&D investment behaviour remains somewhat fragmented. In this thesis, I postulate the idea of an augmented Tobin’s Q model, in which several different …
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Three Essays In Finance
… dissertation is composed of two papers on R&D investment, and another paper on the cross section of stock returns.</p> <p>Chapter One investigates the effect of legal shareholder protection on the efficiency of corporate R&D investment. The main finding is that institutional protection of …
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Three Essays on the Role of Corporate Governance in Firms' Spending on R&D and Controlling Earnings-Management Practices: The Role of Independent Directors’ Tenure and Network in Controlling Earnings-Management Practices; The Impact of Board Diversity on the Corporate Propensity to R&D Spending; The Association between Directors’ Multiple-Board Sittings, Tenure, Financial Expertise, and R&D Spending
… the role of board diversity in the firm’s R&D investment decisions. Additionally, building on a fault-line argument about a team's demographic attributes, the current research decomposes the impact of demographic and cognitive diversity on R&D spending. The research observes a positive …
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The impact of technological change on economic growth in the manufacturing sector of Korea
… imported technology. The rate of return to R&D investment was estimated at 64 percent and was reduced to 20 percent with consideration of the time lag between R&D investment and the application and commercialization of the R&D innovation. The rate of return to imported technology stock was found …
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System dynamics simulation of the telecom industry
… product substitution models, stochastic R&D investment models, as well as an economic model for determining market share under price competition. The work focused on key attributes and areas of the telecom industry, including network externalities, investment strategies, regulation, …
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Accounting valuation issues on R&D
… from both the US and UK suggesting that R&D investment is positively related to operating and/or market performance, at a first stance this PhD Thesis examines the relation between R&D investment and persistence in operating and market performance using a large dataset of UK companies during …
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Scientizing Science Policy: Implications for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy and R&D Evaluation
… R&D management strategies that make science R&D investment more effective and economically beneficial than before. Former Presidential Science Advisor John Marburger played an important role in articulating an SSP approach at the federal level that opened up a political space for the larger SSP …
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Organizational capabilities, organizational structure, and their dynamics: three essays on boundary choice and capability development in entry decisions
… non-redeployable complementary assets and R&D investment as well as industry entry in essay three). Findings of the dissertation shed light on the fundamental implications of non-redeployability of firm assets on a range of strategic issues related to firm boundary choice, R&D investment, and …
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Skill composition, firm innovation and economic performance: Three essays
… model of research and development (R&D) investment choice to analyse the long-term benefits of R&D and the impact of tax policies on investment decisions among New Zealand firms in manufacturing industries. I identify the productivity improvement channels by decomposing the long-run gains …
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Innovation strategy to sustain a technological edge for national security & global leadership
… by effectively yielding innovation from R&D investment. However, these strategies must evolve within increasing financial pressures, technological complexities, and dynamic geo-political conditions. Through an analysis of the innovation landscape and development of a taxonomy of open …
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Technology investment decisions under uncertainty : a new modeling framework for the electric power sector
… The long infrastructure lifetimes of power plant investments mean that deployment decisions made today will influence carbon dioxide emissions long into the future. New technology development and R&D decisions can help reduce the overall costs of reducing emissions, but there are multiple …
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Three essays in corporate finance
… capital is an important determinant of corporate investment and innovation. Using the unexpected exits of legislators from the U.S. Congress as exogenous shocks to politically connected firms' political capital, I find that losing a political connection induces a firm to increase its capital …
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Valuing innovative technology R&D as a real option : application to fuel cell vehicles
… valuation techniques for innovative technology investment. Treating the fuel cell R&D investment as a real option for General Motor's light passenger vehicle fleet, the thesis presents a 3-step approach to value the R&D and its influence on the fleet value, in which the uncertainties and …
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The impact of Artificial Intelligence focus on firm performance: the role of R&D and top manager education level
… and development (R&D) staff ratio and R&D investment is examined, and a series of research hypotheses are proposed. Furthermore, the study focuses on evaluating top manager education level as a moderating variable to study the mechanism of AI focus and firm performance. A panel data …
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The evaluation of system-wide financial incentives in pipeline decisions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry : the paradox of R&D spend Vs. new drug approvals
… addressing unmet medical needs. Significant R&D investments led to innovative drugs that changed clinical practice across multiple illnesses and contributed to an overall rise in life expectancy around the world. Unfortunately, this trend has not continued. Since the mid-90s', the approval of …
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Hydrogen : what fuel cell vehicles and advanced nuclear reactors have in common
… at a reasonable cost. Therefore, large R&D investment in thermochemical hydrogen production should be balanced with a similar R&D in large scale electrolysis technologies that are relatively easier to deploy and have lower engineering risks.
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Resource Deployment Strategies Following Initial Public Offering: Connecting Resource -Based, Upper Echelons, and Agency Perspectives
… theory, overall profitability of R&D investments increases with firm-specific experience possibly due to higher quality of investment choices and implementation. Second, in support of resource-based theory, the joint experience of managers in the top management team prepares them for …
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