My investigations based on wide cross-section analysis of 5128 firms in Czech Republic (1998-2006) present some evidence of their behaviour in field of innovations. Business sector relationship to technological change is characterized by following findings (ceteris paribus): 1) Size of a firm (given by capital, employees and total sales) has ambiguous relation to total number of R&D workers. 2) There is negative relationship between concentration and number of R&D workers. 3) Competition is positively associated with intensive using of intellectual property rights (given by intangible assets). 4) Benefits of in-house R&D that is represented by total number of R&D workers come with multiplicative relation towards total sales. 5) Companies owned by foreigners substantially contribute to total R&D activity in Czech Republic and there is some evidence of technological transfer.

La littérature économique attribuant des rôles endogènes à l'évolution technologique et à lagéographie pour expliquer la croissance économique suggère que la compréhension des fluxde connaissances dans l'espace et de leurs conséquences sur les activités d'innovation est aucoeur de l'explication des disparités dans la croissance économique. À cet égard, cette thèsemet l'accent sur les réseaux de connaissances comme un mécanisme permettant la circulationdes connaissances dans l'espace et le temps. Parmi les différents types de réseaux deconnaissances, elle étudie les réseaux de collaboration de R&D et explore deux questionsprincipales.Tout d'abord, elle examine l'effet de la géographie sur la formation du réseau pour savoir si lesflux de connaissances par les réseaux de collaboration en R&D sont limités dans l'espace oupas. Elle s'enquiert de cette question à la fois pour le réseau multilatéral entre lesorganisations et le réseau inter-régional entre les régions européennes dans le domaine desbiotechnologies en utilisant les données sur les collaborations de R&D promues par lesProgrammes-Cadres Européens.Deuxièmement, elle explore comment un réseau évolutif de collaborations de R&D entre lesrégions affecte les performances des régions en matière d'innovation. Elle utilise l'économétriespatiale pour quantifier les effets statiques et dynamiques des flux de connaissances desvoisins spatiaux et d'un ensemble évolutif de partenaires de collaboration sur l'activitéinventive des régions dans le domaine des TIC au cours de la période 2003-2009. / The economic literature attributing endogenous roles to technological change and geography inexplaining economie growth suggests that understanding knowledge flows in space and theirconsequences on innovative activities is central to explaining disparities in economie growth. Inthis regard, this PhD thesis focuses on knowledge networks as a mechanism that enablesknowledge flows in space and time. Among different types of knowledge networks, it studiesR&D collaboration networks and addresses two main issues.First, it investigates the effect of geography on network formation to figure out whetherknowledge flows through R&D collaboration networks are constrained in space or not. It inquiresthis question both for multilateral R&D collaboration network among organizations and theresulting inter-regional network among European regions in the field of biotechnology using dataon R&D collaborations promoted via European Framework Programmes.Second, it addresses how an evolving network of R&D collaborations among regions affectsregional innovation performances in time. It employs a spatial econometric approach to quantifythe static and dynamic effects of knowledge flows from spatial neighbors and an evolving set ofcollaboration partners on inventive activity of regions in the field of ICT durin 2003-2009.

Les pôles de compétitivité sont un instrument important de la politique industrielle française. Ils ont pour objectif de mettre en place des dynamiques d’innovation ouverte et coopérative, moteurs de croissance et d’emplois. Les pôles de compétitivité sont une forme atypique d’organisation de l’innovation.Les études et évaluations menées ont mis en lumière les effets positifs des pôles de compétitivité sur l’emploi. Ces études ont été menées à partir de cadres d’analyse ne permettant pas de prendre en compte de manière précise et adaptée l’effet des pôles de compétitivité. Ce travail de thèse propose de mesurer les effets des pôles de compétitivité sur l’emploi à partir d’un cadre d’analyse prenant en compte leurs caractéristiques résiliaires et coopératives et basé sur une approche microéconomique, au niveau des établissements d’entreprise. Cette évaluation mesure l’impact direct de la participation des entreprises aux projets de pôles sur leurs performances d’emploi et leurs dynamiques salariales. A partir de données de panel, un modèle d’évaluation de différences en différences permet de tester l’effet de la participation des entreprises sur les dynamiques d’emploi et de salaires entre 2004 et 2010, comparativement à des entreprises restées hors des pôles. Les entreprises ayant pris part à un projet de R&D collaboratif ont vu leur effectif global moyen augmenter de 31 emplois par rapport à des entreprises étant restées hors des pôles, toutes choses égales par ailleurs. Les pôles auraient permis la création de 20 115 emplois, dont 8 428 emplois de cadres et liés à la R&D. Les pôles de compétitivité ont un impact positif sur les emplois cadres et de R&D, mais pas sur les emplois ouvriers. En outre, les pôles de compétitivité influencent la masse salariale des entreprises ayant pris part aux projets de R&D coopératifs des pôles, elle a augmenté de 11,3% suite à la participation à un projet de R&D entre 2004 et 2010, relativement à des entreprises restées hors des pôles. Les caractéristiques coopératives et résiliaires des réseaux formés par les projets de R&Dentre entreprises et acteurs de l’innovation expliquent ces dynamiques d’emploi et de salaires. La richesse du capital social des entreprises (le nombre de liens sociaux qu’elles possèdent), impacte négativement ses performances d’emploi. Inversement, la valeur du capital social des entreprises (diversité des acteurs du capital social) impacte positivement ses performances d’emploi. Ainsi, la multiplication des liens sociaux conduit les entreprises à disposer d’un nombre important de ressources et les incite davantage à mobiliser ses liens sociaux, au détriment du recrutement de nouveaux salariés. En revanche, la diversité des acteurs est pourvoyeur d’emplois. Cette diversité permet aux entreprises de bénéficier d’un environnement propice aux échanges et l’émergence d’idées qui les conduit à mettre en place des projets de R&D, créateurs d’emplois.Les résultats de cette évaluation montrent que les pôles de compétitivité sont créateurs d’emploi et que les caractéristiques coopératives et résilaires des pôles ont un impact sur les performances d’emploi des entreprises. / French competitiveness clusters are an important tool of French industrial policy, they aim to develop open and collaborative innovation, growth and employment. These clusters are an atypical form of innovation organization. Studies and evaluations highlight the positive effects of French competitiveness clusters on employment. These studies were conducted with an analytical framework which does not allow taking into account accurately and appropriately the effect of clusters. This thesis proposes to measure the effects of clusters on employment from an original analytical framework. This framework, based on a microeconomic approach at firm level, considers the network and cooperative characteristics of French clusters. This evaluation measures the direct impact of firms participation into clusters projects on their employment performances and wage dynamics. From panel data, a Difference-in-Differences model is used to test the effect of the firm participation in clusters projects on the dynamics of employment and wages between 2004 and 2010, compared to companies which remained outside the clusters. Average total manpower increases by 31 jobs in firms which took part in a collaborative R&D project, compared to companies outside clusters, all things being equal. Clusters allowed the creation of 20 115 jobs, including 8 428 managerial and R&D jobs. French competitiveness clusters have a positive impact on managerial and R&D jobs, but not on workers’ jobs. In addition, clusters affect payroll for firms participating in R&D projects. The payroll increased by 11,3% for firms which participated in an R&D project between 2004 and 2010, relative to firms which remained outside clusters. Cooperative and network features of R&D networks explain these dynamics of employment and wages. The wealth of firms social capital (number of social links) negatively impacts firms employment performances. Conversely, the value of social capital companies (diversity of actors in social capital) positively impacts their employment performances. Thus, the multiplication of social links lead firms to have a large number of resources and a greater incentive to mobilize social links, to the detriment of the recruiting of new employees. However, the diversity of actors can create jobs. This diversity enables firms to benefit from an environment conducive to trade and new ideas, favourable to R&D projects and employment.These evaluation results show that French competitiveness clusters are job creators and that clusters cooperative and network characteristics have an impact on firms employment performances.

This master thesis deals with intangible results of research and development with a focus on the ICT sector from the perspective of two world-scale systems IFRS and US GAAP and their comparison with the Czech accounting standards. The introductory section focuses on the general definition of research and development by the FRASCATI manual, the macroeconomic dimension of ICT sector and ICT project life cycle, as defined by methodology MMDIS. It follows the part that deals with the specific definition of intangible results of research and development in IFRS, US GAAP and Czech accounting standards whose differences are indicated by the subsequent chapter. At the end of the thesis it deals with the examination of the relationship between the reported costs of research and development and the market price of the shares of specific companies listed on the NASDAQ comparing two methods - the date of the financial statements release and analysis of the annual changes.

This thesis explores two important aspects of growth, namely the roles of financial development and inequality. The recent literature has indicated that both the finance-growth and inequality-growth relationships are complex and not well captured through conventional linear regression analyses. Thus, most of the existing empirical literature focuses on marginal or direct growth effects, ignoring the role of possible factors, conditions and thresholds that may alter our thinking about how financial development or inequality may affect economic growth. Further, it ignores the presence of outliers, especially in cross-sectional analyses which may hinder our understanding of these relationships. Therefore, Chapter 1 addresses the issue of outliers in finance-growth literature and provides a robust sensitivity analysis of some past studies and an updated data set. Chapter 2 focuses on whether R&D plays a role, potentially as a proxy for an omitted variable, for growth and whether it has important interactions with financial development. Chapter 3 then examines the role of inequality for growth, allowing the effects to differ depending on the level of human versus physical capital accumulation.The cross-sectional analysis of Chapter 1 employs the robust regression methods of median quantile regression and least trimmed squares. It shows that the findings of past studies are sensitive to outlier observations. Further, we find that the positive effect of financial development on growth disappears and even becomes negative once we use our extended data set of 86 countries over the period 1997-2006. This last finding is consistent with Rousseau and Wachtel (2011). Moreover, we investigate whether our understanding of the finance-growth relationship can further be improved by introducing a measure of R&D into the standard analysis. We note that our measure of R&D has a strong positive effect on growth and may proxy the role of an omitted variable which is highly correlated with economic growth.Chapter 2 also uses R&D and investigates its interaction with conventionally measured financial development. It employs a variety of panel data techniques for a panel of 36 OECD and non-OECD countries to show that the relationship between financial development and economic growth is not straightforward; rather, it is conditional upon the level of innovation or R&D. Further, we find that a high level of technological innovation or R&D is associated with a weak or negative effect of financial development on economic growth. It is also noted that R&D is associated with financial innovation and the results suggest that countries with a high level of R&D may have less regulated financial systems which can adversely affect the finance-growth relationship.The third chapter explores the relationship between inequality and growth in the context of a unified empirical approach suggested by the theoretical model of Galor and Moav (2004). Based on that model, we construct a new measure, the human capital to physical capital ratio, which is used to study threshold effects in the inequality-growth relationship. Methodologically, we use threshold regression with instruments, developed by Caner and Hansen (2004), which allows us to endogenously identify the threshold human capital to physical capital ratio that alters the inequality-growth relationship. Using data on 82 countries, our results show that there exist significant threshold effects, with a level of the human capital to physical capital ratio below which the effect of inequality on growth is positive and significant, whereas it is negative and significant above it. We also test the robustness of our results using different measures of the human capital to physical capital ratio. These results are consistent with the theoretical predictions of Galor and Moav (2004).

There exist some concern regarding the sustainability of the production of R&D output and R&D capacity in South Africa. Recent trends indicated evidence of disinvestments and decay of South Africa’s R&D capacity. Questions arise concerning the detrimental effects these trends could have on South Africa’s ability to generate R&D output. As problems are addressed insufficiently and the system is allowed to decay, the costs of rebuilding the system might increase even further. The main research of objective of this thesis is to develop a computer simulation program of R&D performance and the creation of R&D output in the NSI. This model will in turn produce a tool to be used for policy testing, what-if scenario testing or policy optimisation. The purpose of the model is to simulate R&D output generated in the South African system of innovation and to model and explain the effect the presence/lack of long-term investment in R&D and R&D resources could have on the system’s ability to produce R&D output. In developing this model and by using the corresponding simulation programme, decision-makers in government and industry are provided with a tool to analyse policy alternatives. The model will provide a better understanding of the interrelationships between different elements of the NSI, in particular those interacting as funders and performers of R&D. This model will also aid decision makers in enhancing the efficiency of addressing problem areas within the South African R&D system. The contribution made by this thesis to the body of knowledge is that the development of a system dynamic model will result in the establishment of a dynamic hypothesis of the development of new knowledge through R&D in an R&D performing sector. The dynamic hypothesis will in turn lead to a method for modelling the effect of R&D investment on the development of an R&D capacity, i.e. the system’s ability to absorbed knowledge and produce R&D output. The above is essentially a dynamic description of the process around creating and absorbing knowledge through R&D activities. / Thesis (PhD (Engineering Management))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Graduate School of Technology Management (GSTM) / PhD / Unrestricted

El propósito de esta tesis es triple e intenta comprender un importante resultado de la innovación organizativa: la innovación de proceso. Primero, el artículo aborda un tema en emergente crecimiento: la importancia de los innovadores no-I+D (innovadores sin I+D que innovan). Segundo, el artículo explora y arroja luz sobre el fenómeno de la innovación de proceso que ha recibido menos atención por parte de los académicos en los últimos años, más centrados en el fenómeno de la innovación de producto. En tercer lugar, el artículo también busca ideas para determinar el grado en que las actividades de innovación de proceso son interdependientes de la innovación de producto. La tesis constituye un intento de obtener una fértil síntesis de los estímulos de la innovación de proceso y sus resultados usando diferentes disciplinas económicas para complementar la perspectiva de la innovación organizativa. El estudio está basado en los datos de la encuesta CIS de España e incluye 16.843 firmas que respondieron haber introducido cualquier tipo de resultado innovador en sectores manufactureros y de servicios (a partir de una encuesta de 33.363 empresas). En general, los resultados subrayan el hecho de que la actividad de innovación de proceso en contextos de media y baja tecnología, es explicada principalmente por los esfuerzos no-I+D, mostrando una baja dependencia del suministro externo de inputs, por ejemplo fuentes externas de conocimiento, el tamaño no es importante y los recursos internos pueden sustituir a los externos, con un enfoque más interno de la generación de conocimiento. La tesis presenta también importantes implicaciones para los políticos, sobre todo frente a los problemas de selectividad de la muestra usualmente observados en la mayoría de estudios de innovación de proceso. / Boronat Moll, C. (2012). ANÁLISIS DE LA INNOVACIÓN EN PROCESO Y ESTUDIO DE LOS NON-R&D INNOVATORS. EVIDENCIA EMPÍRICA PARA ESPAÑA [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/19210 / Palancia

Ce mémoire de validation des acquis de l’expérience (VAE) s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une demande d’accès au diplôme de doctorat. Il s’organise autour de trois parties. La première est un bilan de parcours, la deuxième est une analyse des activités de recherche et la troisième est un bilan des productions scientifiques. Autour de nombreux exemples, il structure une analyse des acquis et des compétences. Dans le premier chapitre, le bilan de parcours s’appuie sur une analyse chronologique et catégorielle des activités (travaux de recherche, animation scientifique, encadrement, enseignement, etc.) aussi bien en recherche publique que privée. Il rend compte de nombreuses évolutions sensibles : évolution du positionnement à la recherche, spécialisation progressive des sujets d’étude, internationalisation croissante des échanges scientifiques, structuration du réseau partenarial, management d’équipe…Dans le deuxième chapitre, plusieurs travaux scientifiques sont présentés portant sur l’amélioration de l’efficience d’utilisation du phosphore selon diverses approches (complexation, solubilisation bactérienne, voie de signalisation, vectorisation de principes actifs et modélisation de diffusion…). Ces sujets de recherche s’organisent autour de la compréhension des processus, des mécanismes d’actions et des domaines de validité des solutions à destination du milieu agricole. Enfin, dans le troisième chapitre, les types de productions scientifiques (publications, brevets, autorisations de mise sur le marché, posters, communications, rapports d’expertise…) rendent compte de la trans / This manuscript is part of a process of recognition of acquired experience. It is organized around three parts. The first part is an assessment of the course, the second part is an analysis of the research activities and the third part is a review of the scientific productions. Around many examples, it structures an analysis of skills and competencies. In the first chapter, the assessment of the course is based on a chronological and categorical analysis of activities (research work, scientific animation, supervision, teaching, etc.) in both public and private research. It reports on many significant developments: evolution of positioning to research, progressive specialization of the subjects of study, increasing internationalization of scientific exchanges, structuring of the partnership network, team management ...In the second chapter, several scientific works are presented on the improvement of the efficiency of use of phosphorus according to various approaches (complexation, bacterial solubilization, signaling pathway, vectorization of active principles and diffusion modeling ...). These research topics are organized around the understanding of processes, mechanisms of action and areas of validity of solutions for the agricultural community. Finally, in the third chapter, the types of scientific productions (publications, patents, marketing authorizations, posters, communications, expert reports ...) reflect the transdisciplinary of the work, reveal the importance of protection strategies. intellectual property and concretize the complementary nature of the laborato

abstract: Research and Development (R&D) tax credits are one of the most widely adopted policies state governments use to incentivize R&D spending by firms operating in a state. R&D spending is associated with increases in firm productivity, innovation, and higher wages. However, most studies into these tax credits examine only the effect the credit has on firm-based R&D spending and assume the increases in R&D spending mean states are receiving the social and economic benefits endogenous growth theory predicts. This dissertation connects R&D tax credits with the expected outcomes of R&D spending increases to evaluate the efficacy of the tax credits. Specifically, the dissertation connects R&D tax credits to the movement of researchers between states, innovative activity, and state fiscal health. The study uses a panel of U.S. PhD graduates and a fixed-effects linear probability model to show R&D tax credits have a small but statistically significant impact on PhDs moving to states that have the tax credit. Using a structural equation model and a latent innovation variable, the dissertation shows R&D tax credits have a small but significant impact on innovative activity mediated by R&D spending. Finally, the dissertation examines the effect of R&D tax credits on a state’s short- and long-run fiscal health by using a distributed lag model to illustrate R&D tax credits are associated with decreases with fiscal health. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Public Administration and Policy 2020

South Africa (SA) is classified as a middle-income emerging market, with the most resource-rich economy in Sub-Saharan Africa (SAccess, 2012). Its Research and Development (R&D) journey is characterised by a history of imbalances and oppression. Since the introduction of SA’s National R&D Strategy, recorded government R&D spending has been on the rise. However, the success rate for public-funded R&D projects has neither been satisfactory nor readily exposed for all to see. Factors considered critical for project success are largely contextual and tend to differ per project and industry. There appears to be no general consensus among scholars and authors on the common factors deemed critical in influencing the success of public-funded R&D projects. In SA, such factors still remain a mystery for further exploration. This research study sought to develop a model that will assist in achieving two key objectives, namely to identify the Critical Success Factors (CSF) of public-funded R&D projects in SA, as well as to exhume possible interrelationships between the identified critical success factors. This paper argues for a systemic and structure-based holistic approach and adopts Warfield’s Interactive Management (IM) in its endeavour to identify those factors that are deemed critical in the successful implementation of public-funded R&D projects in SA. The methodology comprises three key phases: a planning phase; a workshop phase; as well as a follow-up phase. The planning phase is a foundational phase that lays the basis and a plan for the ensuing two phases. The workshop, also known as the conversation phase, could be conceptualised as a process for building patterned interactions among the participants. It is in this phase that a relationship model, in the form of a diagraph, is constructed. The follow-up phase is the last phase and involves the implementation of the results to prove validity of solutions proposed in the workshop phase. However, since this last phase falls outside the scope of this paper, it has been excluded. Through the application of the IM methodology, a total of 35 identified CSFs were reduced to 23 key to formulate the CSF relationship model using the Interpretive Structural Model (ISM). Based on the model results, the study is concluded by identifying “Product market viability” and “Executive management support” as the two primary success factors that are most significant and have the greatest leverage to influence other factors towards the successful completion of public-funded R&D projects in SA.