r&d

The authors use panel data for nine industries to evaluate research and development investments in New Zealand over the past forty years. They estimate the impact of R&D stocks in a particular industry on output per person in that industry and on output per person in the rest of the economy.

This report is intended as an analytic paper that can inform further consideration and consultation on these issues, including in the context of the Australian
Government’s plans to develop quality and accessibility frameworks for publicly funded research and to reassess the performance monitoring framework for science and innovation more broadly.

Given the increasing competitiveness and greater geo-political significance of higher education and research, and the under-developed profile of many new HEIs, this study seeks to examine the processes and strategies being devised by new HEIs to grow research.

Using a game theoretical model on firms simultaneous investments in product and process innovation, the authors deduct and empirically test hypotheses on the optimal R&D portfolio, investment, performance, and dynamic efficiency of R&D for acquisitions and in independently competing firms. They use Community Innovation Survey data on Italian manufacturing firms.

This paper analyzes the impact of agency problems on two entrepreneurs’ choice whether to carry out a stand-alone or a joint project.

This paper investigates the commonly debated question about innovations and firm age. Are innovations made by incumbent firms, and does innovation therefore constitute a barrier to entry, or is innovation a way for new firms to successfully compete? The paper further investigates the relationship between firm size and innovation.

The focus in this research report is on the offshoring of research, design and development in the context of a new, emerging, international division of highly skilled labor. The report also analyzes the implications for U.S. innovation, the economy and job creation.

The authors investigate firms’ incentives to locate in the same region to gain access to a large pool of skilled labor. Agglomeration is welfare maximizing, because expected labor productivity is higher and firms choose a more effcient, technically diversified portfolio of R&D projects at the industry level.

Drawing upon the case of STMicroelectronics, the authors provide evidence that partnering or contracting with universities for innovation is common practice for developing new -original- knowledge, as opposed to applying existing knowledge, for solving a problem.

The study presented in this paper describes preliminary findings on changes in the adoption of different learning mechanisms before and after the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), based on a study of 193 Mexican automotive firms. The results obtained give us useful insights on the composition and capability levels of the sector as well as highlighting changes in the research and development capacity of these firms under the new competitive market conditions.