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2007-034: Strategic Partnering with Chinese Companies: Hidden Motives and Treasures

Geert Duysters, Tina Saebi and Qinqin Dong

2007-033: Determinants of alliance portfolio complexity and its effect on innovative performance of companies

Geert Duysters and Boris Lokshin

2007-032: R&D collaboration networks in the European FrameworkProgrammes: Data processing, network construction and selected results

Thomas Roediger-Schluga and Michael J. Barber

2007-031: Innovation and Competitive Capacity in Bangladeshs Pharmaceutical Sector

Padmashree Gehl Sampath

2007-030: A New Nexus Between Foreign Direct Investment, Industrial and Innovation Policies

Ionara Costa and Sergey Filippov

2007-029: Redefining Foreign Direct Investment Policy: A Two Dimensional Framework

Sergey Filippov and Ionara Costa

2007-028: The Global Challenges of the Knowledge Economy: China and the EU

Can Huang and Luc Soete

2007-027: National Systems of Innovations and the Role of Demand. A Cross Country Comparison

Abraham Garcia

2007-026: The Productivity Effects of Internal and External R&D: Evidence From a Dynamic Panel Data Model

Boris Lokshin, Rene Belderbos and Martin Carree

2007-025: Measuring the Effectiveness of R&D Tax Credits in the Netherlands

Boris Lokshin and Pierre Mohnen

2007-024: The Environmental Porter Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and a Model of Timing of Adoption

Thomas Ziesemer and Ben Kriechel

2007-023: R&D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies: Firm-level evidence from the ICT industry

Can Huang, Zhe Qu, Mingqian Zhang and Yanyun Zhao

2007-022: Knowledge Flows, Patent Citations and the Impact of Science on Technology

Bart Verspagen and Onder Nomaler

2007-021: ICT Externalities: Evidence from cross country data

Huub Meijers

2007-020: Exploration and Exploitation in Technology-based Alliance Networks

Geert Duysters, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Bonnie Beerkens and Victor Gilsing

2007-019: External technology sourcing: The effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice

Geert Duysters, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Vareska van de Vrande

2007-018: Technological capability building through networking strategies within high-tech industries

Geert Duysters, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Bonnie Beerkens

2007-017: Technological spillovers from multinational presence - Towards a conceptual framework

Geoffrey Gachino

2007-016: Foreign direct investment and firm level productivity - A panel data analysis

Geoffrey Gachino

2007-015: Are Firms That Received R&D Subsidies More Innovative?

Pierre Mohnen and Charles Bérubé

2007-014: Technology Supply Chain or Innovation Capacity?: Contrasting Experiences of Promoting Small Scale Irrigation Technology in South Asia

Andrew Hall, Norman Clark and Guru Naik

2007-013: The origins and implications of using innovation systems perspectives in the design and implementation of agricultural research projects: Some personal observations

Andrew Hall

2007-012: The Spatial Hierarchy of Technological Change and Economic Development in Europe

Bart Verspagen

2007-011: Financial Constraint and R&D Investment: Evidence from CIS

Pierre Mohnen, Amaresh Tiwari, Franz Palm and Sybrand Schim van der Loeff

2007-010: The Micro-Dynamics of Catch Up in Indonesian Paper Manufacturing: An International Comparison of Plant-Level Performance

Adam Szirmai and Michiel Van Dijk

2007-009: How do social capital and government support affect innovation and growth? Evidence from the EU regional support programmes

Semih Akçomak and Bas ter Weel

2007-008: Location and R&D alliances in the European ICT industry

Rajneesh Narula and Grazia Santangelo

2007-007: The Behavior of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of Dynamic Panel Data Sample Selection Models

Pierre Mohnen, Wladimir Raymond, Franz Palm and Sybrand Schim van der Loeff

2007-006: Inter-firm technology transfer: Partnership-embedded licensing or standard licensing agreements?

John Hagedoorn, Stefanie Lorenz-Orlean and Hans Kranenburg

2007-005: How Do Consumers Make Choices? A Summary of Evidence from Marketing and Psychology

Zakaria Babutsidze

2007-004: States and Firms on the Periphery: The Challenges of a Globalising World

Gabriel Benito and Rajneesh Narula

2007-003: Estimations of US debt dynamics: Growth cum debt and the savings glut in Kouri’s model

Thomas Ziesemer

2007-002: The impact of innovation activities on productivity and firm growth: evidence from Brazil

Micheline Goedhuys

2007-001: Developing science, technology and innovation indicators: what we can learn from the past

Luc Soete and Chris Freeman

2006-045: Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes

Bruce Weinberg, Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

2006-044: The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores

Huub Meijers, Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

2006-043: Employment, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Bronwyn Hall, Jacques Mairesse and Francesca Lotti

2006-042: Identifying Age, Cohort and Period Effects in Scientific Research Productivity - Discussion and Illustration Using Simulated and Actual Data on French Physicists

Bronwyn Hall, Jacques Mairesse and Laure Turner

2006-041: Does technology affect network structure? - A quantitative analysis of collaborative research projects in two specific EU programmes

Thomas Roediger-Schluga and Bernhard Dachs

2006-040: Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe

Semih Akçomak and Bas ter Weel

2006-039: Structural Holes, Innovation and the Distribution of Ideas

Robin Cowan and Nicolas Jonard

2006-038: Economics and Transitions: Lessons from Economic Sub-disciplines

Rene Kemp and Jeroen van den Bergh

2006-037: What drives productivity in Tanzanian manufacturing firms: technology or institutions?

Micheline Goedhuys, Norbert Janz and Pierre Mohnen

2006-036: The structure of R&D collaboration networks in the European Framework Programmes

Thomas Roediger-Schluga and Michael J. Barber

2006-035: Irreversible Investment under Uncertainty in Electricity Generation: A Clay-Clay-Vintage Portfolio Approach with an Application to Climate Change Policy in the UK

Adriaan van Zon and Sabine Fuss

2006-034: A Brief History of Mobile Telecommunication in Europe

Theo Dunnewijk and Staffan Hultén

2006-033: (S,s) Pricing: Does the Heterogeneity Wipe Out the Asymmetry on Micro Level?

Zakaria Babutsidze

2006-032: Foreign Ownership, Technological Capabilities and Exports: Evidence from 205 Clothing Firms in Sri Lanka

Ganeshan Wignaraja

2006-031: Indian Pharma Within Global Reach?

Padmashree Gehl Sampath

2006-030: Absorptive Capacity and Export Diversification in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Alexis Habiyaremye and Thomas Ziesemer