Devaluation,Innovation, and Prices

We investigate the effects of exchange rate changes on innovation by a multinational corporation. The firm enjoys a monopoly in the home market but engages in Cournot competition with a domestic firm in the foreign market. Changes in currency values affect the multinational firm’s profits in domestic currency units, and thus influence the optimal level of process innovation as well as output and prices in the two markets. We find that a devaluation of the home currency will lead the home firm to increase its output in both the home and foreign markets, and increase its spending on R&D. We also find that currency devaluation in the home market leads to lower prices in both markets.     

Innovation, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship

This paper is a response to Ray's (2004) recent proposal that the intellectual property rights (IPR) attached to potentially life saving/life sustaining innovations should become public goods in cases where markets are either unable or unwilling to pay for the creation of the intellectual property. Using a free market approach to innovation based on Western moral philosophy, we suggest that treating intellectually protected life saving/life sustaining innovations as public goods will likely reduce social welfare over the long term.     

日本综合科技创新会议（CSTI）中的科技外交工具研究

当前,世界各国纷纷立足科技创新,以科技外交为触手参与国际竞争和规则重构。日本综合科技创新会议（CSTI）是日本最高科技政策咨询决策部门,其重要职能之一便是促进日本科技外交发展。本文基于中国学者张冀燕对科技外交工具的分类,以CSTI的发展、产出成果中展现的工具性为切入点,分析日本科技外交发展特点,为我国发展科技外交提供策略建议。     

Innovation,Creativity and Success

This article explores the role of innovation in small and medium sized firms, in relation to the firm's success. After a discussion of the relationship between success, innovation and creativity, some possible backgrounds of creativity and innovation are presented. For one part these are of a personal nature, like the entrepreneur's values, attitudes and level of education. For another part they concern institutional aspects of the firm.After the development of a number of hypotheses these are empirically checked with data from a survey among 200 entrepreneurs in six countries. In the appendices some details of the data and variables may be found.     

Innovation, organizational learning, and performance

Literature examines the relationship between innovation and performance and asserts a positive relationship between organizational learning and both performance and innovation. However, few empirical studies analyze these relationships together. This article explores those relationships using SEM with data from 451 Spanish firms. The findings show that both variables — organizational learning and innovation — contribute positively to business performance, and that organizational learning affects innovation. Another finding of this study is that size and age of the firm, industry and environmental turbulence moderate these relations.     

跨国公司人力资源系统、企业文化与创新绩效关系的实证研究

本文通过实证研究确定跨国公司人力资源系统和企业文化对创新绩效的影响,以及企业文化在人力资源系统和创新绩效间存在的中介作用。在前人研究的基础上,构建了三者之间关系的基本模型,提出了三条基本假设。通过对长三角地区的150家跨国企业进行问卷调查,运用多元回归法分析了有效数据,发现注重培训、基于绩效的薪酬、发展团队三项人力资源实务和企业文化对创新绩效有影响,其中注重培训和公司文化对创新绩效的影响显著,而人力资源系统主要通过企业文化的中介作用来影响创新绩效。     

发展、创新和环境保护

高收入并不意味着发展,它未能反映发展的真正含义。一个国家经济的发展,其含义应该包括人的发展,使所有参与经济建设的人实现自己的愿望。对于人类社会来讲就是要找到一种经济制度来解决我们遇到的新问题。在这种经济制度下,人们精神振奋,在创新的过程中提升自己的知识境界,整个经济始终在接收、发展、评估、测试、创新。经济的发展是一个创新的过程,是人类的持续发展,他们通过参与经济活动而持续发展,而不只是利益问题。快速的增长并不是发展的关键,解决问题、科学发现和人的发展才是关键。创新型经济应该考虑环境问题,但创新与环境保护绝对不是矛盾的。     

Networks,Firm Size and Innovation

Using survey data on Australian firms this paper investigates the determinants of innovation. Various possible determinants are investigated, including market structure, export status, the use of networks, and training. Regression analysis is conducted separately for manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms and, within each sector, by firm size categories. The results include evidence of persistence in innovative activities and that the use of networks is associated with innovation in some sector-firm size categories. Specifically, small manufacturing firms exhibit a positive association between networking and innovation. In contrast, for non-manufacturing firms this association is present for medium and large sized firms.     

Antitrust,Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Small Business

The purpose of this article is to discuss a few aspects of antitrust enforcement that are directly related to small businesses. The first point concerns how the antitrust laws work as an economic "charter of freedom" by protecting our economy from the misuse of market power by dominant firms, or from anticompetitive collusion by groups of firms, or from anticompetitive mergers, all of which can blunt the mainspring of our economic success – competitive markets. Second is an expansion on the first theme which focuses on how antitrust enforcement helps preserve two freedoms that I think small businesses care about very much: the freedom to engage in entrepreneurship, and the freedom to innovate. A final discussion involves a few recent cases recently seen at the Antitrust Division that illustrate the many ways in which antitrust enforcement has helped the small business marketplace.     

Innovation,firm size,and firm age

This paper uses a new data set on innovation output to assess the degree to which the level of innovation in manufacturing firms is influenced by firm size and firm age. Indicators of innovation output used are the number of new products introduced as a function of firm sales and the proportion of firm sales obtained from products first introduced in the previous five years. While the evidence is mixed, the results tend to indicate that it is possible to separate the effects of age and size in assessing the level of innovation. Both firm size and firm age tend to be inversely related to innovative output.     

异质性企业出口、技术创新与生产率动态效应研究

本文探讨了异质性企业出口、技术创新与生产率的动态关系.在异质性企业垄断竞争模型的分析框架下,我们构建了企业出口、创新与生产率的动态结构模型,并通过参数化函数形式建立了计量模型.基于2005-2007年中国电子通信行业的企业面板数据,本研究采用biprobit、非线性最小二乘估计等模型对企业出口、技术创新与生产率的关系进行实证研究.研究结果表明,企业出口和创新的决策及其联动作用促进企业生产率的提高;企业的生产率、资本存量、劳动力投入和出口市场冲击是影响企业自选择行为的异质性因素;投资决策的回报随着企业生产率的提高而提高,因此生产率高的企业会自选择做出该投资决策以获得更大利润.我们的研究从理论和实证的视角在一个整体性的框架中验证了自选择效应、出口学习效应和生产率动态效应,同时对中国出口、创新和生产率的现状提出相应政策建议.     

我国收入分配现状、趋势及改革思考

本文从收入分配的国际视野、我国改革期间收入分配的变动趋势和影响因素、隐性收入和实际收入差距、收入分配失衡的影响以及改革对策等方面,对收入分配制度进行了全面的研究和分析。     

Patent Protection,Startup Takeovers,and Open Innovation

Abstract

Open innovation largely relies on startup innovators transferring their R&D to incumbent firms. Yet, such innovators are at a disadvantage when faced with incumbents holding patent portfolios, raising the question why do such Lilliputian firms choose to innovate? In view of this, we study the impact of patent protection on the innovation incentives of startup firms in a dynamic model where an incumbent faces a sequence of potential startups and the incumbent’s chance of winning an infringement lawsuit increases with the size of its patent portfolio. It is shown that open innovation–style takeover deals generate extra benefits for the incumbent via its enhanced future bargaining positions, a part of which accrues to the current startup as an increased bargaining share, justifying R&D activity that would not have taken place otherwise.     

进口贸易、生产率与企业创新

本文借助2000-2013年中国工业企业数据库、企业专利数据库与海关进出口贸易数据库,构建了企业产品层面和行业层面的进口价值替代变量,并从生产率的角度,对进口促进我国企业创新的异质性影响进行了系统分析。研究发现,进口对企业创新的影响取决于企业的生产率水平,企业的生产率越高,进口对创新的促进作用越明显,且这种促进作用只在生产率超过中位数水平的企业中显现。同时,机制检验发现,高生产率企业在吸收进口技术溢出和应对进口竞争时更具有比较优势。异质性分析发现,来自不同研发投入国的进口对企业创新的影响并无显著差异,知识产权保护则放大了进口对高生产率企业创新的促进作用和对低生产率企业创新的抑制作用;即使是生产率最低的一般贸易企业,进口也对创新起到了激励作用,而加工贸易企业的创新活动不能从进口中获益。     

创新、知识产权与新经济

创新与知识产权对新经济发展有重要作用,以新制度经济学的产权理论分析知识产权的排他性权利实质及特征,论述了知识产权在我国的现状,以契约理论回答了如何实现知识产权产业化的问题。     

Maryann P. Feldman,The Geography of Innovation. Economics of Science,Technology and Innovation

Small Business Economics -     

Innovation investment,competitiveness, and performance in industrial firms

Intangible assets and research and development (R&D) expenditure are essential instruments in a firm's competitive productivity and profitability strategy. The relationship between productivity, tangible and intangible investments, and R&D expenditure has given rise to much analysis concerning the importance of the role played by intangible investment in the achievement of higher competitiveness. Using the Spanish database of the Fundación Empresa Pública‐Ministerio Industria (FUNEP) for the period 1991–2001, with an average of 1,800 firms per year taken from 20 industries and classified in six sectoral groups, we compare the possible relationship of the former variables with firms' profitability and productivity. The empirical results obtained show the importance of tangible investments and unit labor costs for achieving high productivity levels. R&D expenditure and intangible capital are shown to be complementary variables of the aforementioned aspects that have a delayed effect on the productivity and profitability of Spanish industries. The relevance of the prior variables differs according to whether we are referring to industrial sectors characterized by important economies of scale, intensive in capital or labor. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

距离、可达性与创新——高铁开通影响城市创新的最优作用半径研究

高铁拉近了中小城市与中心城市的时空距离,重塑了人才这一创新第一要素的空间配置,为中小城市吸纳创新资源拓宽了空间。本文采用全国284个地级市2005—2015年面板数据,将高铁开通作为准自然实验构建PSM-DID模型对“距离与城市创新”命题进行检验。实证结果表明:(1)高铁开通显著地提高了全国整体的城市创新水平;(2)高铁开通的城市创新效应呈现依“与中心城市的距离”增加而递减的特征,同时高铁开通对中心城市周边100公里范围内的城市创新提升效果不明显,表现出虹吸效应特征,综合这两种效应,最终高铁开通的城市创新效应在“与中心城市的距离”这个维度上呈现“∽”型结构特征,其作用的最优半径为距离中心城市200公里的范围;(3)高铁开通促进城市创新的机制之一是促进城市经济集聚;(4)高铁开通对城市创新的影响具有随着开通时长的增加而逐渐衰减的特征以及区域异质性。本文结论经过稳健性检验、安慰剂检验以及工具变量等处理后依然成立,可为中小城市的差异化发展和战略定位提供借鉴。