r&d

The authors develop a model of two-stage cumulative research and development in which one research unit with an innovative idea bargains to license her nonverifiable interim knowledge exclusively to one of two competing development units.

The paper analyses the interaction of two topics that are a key area of concern for contemporary managers and researchers. These include supply chain management (SCM) and internet. The aim of the paper is to define e-SCM, analyze how research in this area has evolved during the period
1995-2003 and identify some lines of further research.

The paper examines academic earmarks and its role in the funding of university research. It provides a summary and review of the evidence on the supply of earmarks by legislators.

The paper investigates the association between total factor productivity growth and the research and development (R&D) expenditures of Swedish manufacturing firms in the presence of domestic- and international R&D spillovers. Results indicate that a catch-up process exists by which the non-frontier firms in the Swedish manufacturing sector absorb knowledge spillovers from the leading firms in the industry.

Although Sweden is one of the most research and development (R&D)-intensive OECD-countries, the importance of R&D spillovers in the country has not been systematically analyzed. The paper employs a cross-sectional dataset of 264
R&D-performing Swedish firms from 1996-97.

The paper examines the age-old question whether research and development (R&D) cooperation leads to price collusion. The paper is also discusses the fact that R&D partnerships break up at surprisingly high rates.

The paper studies endogenous growth driven by an expanding variety of
product where lenders limit credit up to the collateralizable value of existing
patents.

Using a sample of Spanish firms, the authors test for differences across agencies and industries in research and development subsidy programs. Results suggest that firms in the same industry face different hurdles to participate in different agencies programs, that participation patterns may reflect a combination of agency goals, and that patterns differ across high-tech and low-tech industries.

The authors develop a model describing the dynamic behavior of individual heterogeneous firms that explains why research and development effort is strongly related to productivity and patenting yet essentially unrelated to firm size or growth.

Tthe effectiveness of a public innovation policy aimed at stimulating private R&D investment is explored. The research question is whether public funding increases the total spending on research or merely displaces funding from other
sources.