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Northern and southern innovativity: a comparison across European and Latin American countries

Stéphane Lhuillery, Julio Diego Salvador Raffo

This paper compares the role of innovation and economic performance across European and Latin American countries, using firm-level data from France, Spain, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. We implement a standard structural model linking R&D inte ...

2008

Evidence on the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

This paper empirically assesses the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector. The analysis is restricted to end-to-end competition. The effect on the incentives to innovate of public ownership, letter volume, and other co ...

2008

The effect of liberalisation on incumbent's innovation

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

The network industries have been undergoing a process of reform, where liberalisation is one of the main features. This thesis studies the effect of liberalisation, with and without competition, on the incumbent's incentives to innovate. A model of incumbe ...

EPFL2008

Accelerating the development time of recombinant mammalian cell lines producing high titers of protein therapeutics

Sébastien Chenuet

The forthcoming arrival on the market of numerous protein therapeutics that require high clinical doses will foster the need for high-producing mammalian cell lines. Furthermore, pressures to reduce the development time for new therapeutics has meant more ...

EPFL2008

Policymakers and the R&D-patent relationship

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Patent-based indicators at the country level are frequently used to assess countries' innovation performances or efforts. Yet they are often said to reflect the propensity to patent rather than actual research productivity. The authors of this article argu ...

2008

Rational vector design and multi-pathway modulation of HEK 293E cells yield recombinant antibody titers exceeding 1 g/l by transient transfection under serum-free conditions

Florian Maria Wurm, Gaurav Backliwal, Sébastien Chenuet, Sarah Wulhfard

Transient transfection allows for fast production of recombinant proteins. However, the current bottlenecks in transient transfection are low titers and low specific productivity compared to stable cell lines. Here, we report an improved transient transfec ...

2008

Effects of impoundment on nutrient availability and productivity in lakes

Alfred Johny Wüest

We investigate the hydraulic alteration and the effect on primary productivity of the Hugh Keenleyside Dam built at the outlet of the Arrow Lakes (British Columbia, Canada) in 1967. Three dam-induced hydraulic changes have been identified as relevant: (1) ...

Amer Soc Limnology Oceanography2007

Environmental analysis of intensity level in wheat crop production using life cycle assessment

Although a priori thinking would suggest that a low intensity crop is environmentally favourable, this assumption ignores the effect of reduced productivity which could simply lead to pollution shifting to other places. A life cycle assessment of the wheat ...

2006

Simulating learning in interorganizational networks: The insidious role of task interdependence and relational instability in system-level learning

Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez

In this paper we develop a multi-agent simulation model to explore the issue of learning in interorganizational networks. Though interorganizational network researchers generally agree that when firms form into networks they will gain access to new knowled ...

2006

Production of recombinant protein therapeutics in cultivated mammalian cells

Florian Maria Wurm

Cultivated mammalian cells have become the dominant system for the production of recombinant proteins for clinical applications because of their capacity for proper protein folding, assembly and post-translational modification. Thus, the quality and effica ...

2004

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