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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"R&D spending"”.
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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
… of demographic and cognitive diversity on R&D spending. The research observes a positive relationship between board diversity and the level of R&D spending. Moreover, this research documents that cognitive diversity is positively associated with R&D investment. However, demographic diversity …
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What helps the development of new vaccine products : an economic analysis of R&D spending in the vaccine industry, the productivity of biotechnological research and related issues in science and technology policy
… not appear to 'crowd out' private sector R&D spending. Other factors emphasised in the literature, such as the relative market size and improvements in patent protection, were not significantly related to research intensity. In the Second Part of this thesis the scope has been extended to …
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The economics of patent litigation: an empirical analysis in the U.S. from 1996 to 2010
… for the number of patents per dollar of R&D spending, capital expenditures, total R&D spending, market value, scale, liquidity level, and patent portfolio quality (measured by originality, generality, and citations). I conclude that both litigants' characteristics and patent characteristics …
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Economic effects of demographic changes
… education are less supportive of public R&D spending. This points to possible political economy causes of technological change. A high proportion of educated voters may accelerate such change by expanding public R&D outlays. Thus an increased supply of skilled workers could raise the relative …
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Essays on taxation and firm behavior
… impact of the federal R&D tax credit on research spending during the 1981-1991 period using both publicly available data from 10-Ks and confidential data from federal corporate tax returns. The key advance on previous work is the use of an instrumental variables strategy based on tax law changes …
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Relationships Between Firms' Sources of Technologies and Their Product Market Opportunities
… and reported statistics focus on total R&D spending. Even the more recent literature that focuses on the value of intangible assets like knowledge only focuses on the value of R&D expenditure. Based on our reading of the literature and conversations with managers, we came around to a …
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Genomics research and cultivating serendipity in pharmaceutical drug discovery : assessing the competitiveness of R&D productivity between the West and Asia
… Research (CDER)---despite rapidly escalating R&D spending among the world's major pharmaceutical firms (the "majors"). Industry leaders, researchers, and observers have all but acknowledged this drug discovery productivity crisis, much of it attributed to the industry's preference for and eventual …
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R&D organizational reform to provide profitable products
… company's ability to extract value from its R&D spending. There is no one best organizational design. Each company has to build an appropriate organization based on its business environment. The main subject of this thesis is Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation's (NTT) R&D organization. …
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Female participation in research and development: the role of government and defense spending
This study analyzes how defense spending has biased research and development (R&D) institutions and the path of technological change in a specifically gendered way. Military considerations have long played a significant role in the development of science, technology, and industry. The large role …
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Can Companies Economically Benefit While Helping the Society?
… CSR performance, economic performance, and R&D spending, and the results are interpreted in regards to this paper's hypotheses. To illustrate the validity of these results, four companies' CSR efforts are analyzed in-depth, elaborating on the reasons for the respective index ranking they …
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Improving the productivity of an R&D organization
… processes related to the approval of tests and spending R&D funds. This mapping allows the identification of wastes and improvement in cycle time and in productivity of the process under study. In order to achieve the results above, a precise definition of value and productivity was needed. I …
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Innovation Focused Strategy and Earnings Management
… reduction in research and development (R&D) spending). Extant research provides several theories regarding why innovative firms might be more likely to manage earnings. Innovative firms are in need of large pools of capital to support new research projects (Choi and Ahn 2010), thus pressuring …
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Technology investment decisions under uncertainty : a new modeling framework for the electric power sector
… of higher than average returns), reduces R&D spending throughout the planning horizon.
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Identification of the critical success factors for public-funded R&D projects in South Africa
… National R&D Strategy, recorded government R&D spending has been on the rise. However, the success rate for public-funded R&D projects has neither been satisfactory nor readily exposed for all to see. Factors considered critical for project success are largely contextual and tend to differ per …
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Essays in empirical corporate finance and investment
… buybacks, but they cause firms to reduce R&D spending and increase accruals. Therefore, we conclude that instead of buying back shares, firms have alternative ways of countering EPS dilution from option exercises, such as boosting income through real- and accrual-based earnings management. …
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The Greener Alternative: Sustainable Development in Iron Catalysis and Biodegradable Polymers
… 1% increase in research and development (R&D) spending leads to roughly 120,000 new jobs and approximately $3 billion in earnings.174 If the world comes together, as it did to repair the ozone layer, to solve the existential threat that is posed by climate change, then, in the remaining 8 years …