The trade-off between absorptive capacity and appropriability of the returns to innovation effort
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Keywords
Innovation; entrepreneurship; absorptive capacity; knowledge spillovers;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CSE-2019-04-22 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-ENT-2019-04-22 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-GEO-2019-04-22 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-INO-2019-04-22 (Innovation)
- NEP-SBM-2019-04-22 (Small Business Management)
- NEP-URE-2019-04-22 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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