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SUMMARY:Brown Bag Seminar by Daniel Neicu\, KU Leuven
DTSTART:20150505T120000
DTEND:20150505T133000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Neicu\, KU Leuven\n"Thanks\, but no thanks: Companies
 ’ Response to R&D tax Credits"Abstract\n"This paper investigates whether
  firms learn from their peers in order to optimizetheir R&D management. In
  particular\, we consider to what extent R&D active firms in Belgium mimic
  their peers’ decision to adopt a newly introduced tax exemption for wag
 es of R&D employees. By exploring different definitions of peer networks b
 ased on geographical proximity\, we show that there is a ‘critical mass
 ’ of neighbors affecting a firm’s decision to use fiscal incentives fo
 r R&D. Our findings suggest that firms’ informal networksplay an importa
 nt role in accessing not only technological but also managerial knowledge.
  These results have methodological implications for dealing with selection
  biasin program evaluation\, and they inform policy makers how firms cope 
 with a fragmented landscape of innovation support measures."
LOCATION:ODY 4.03 VIP Room http://plan.epfl.ch/?zoom=19&recenter_y=5863800
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 ation\,parkings_publics\,arrets_metro\,transports_publics&floor=4&q=ODY_4.
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