Michele Cincera

Economic and technological performances of international firms (1998)

Cincera, Michele

The research performed throughout this dissertation aims at implementing quantitative methods in order to assess economic and technological performances of firms, i.e. it tries to assess the impacts...

Economic and technological performances of international firms (1998)

Cincera, Michele

The research performed throughout this dissertation aims at implementing quantitative methods in order to assess economic and technological performances of firms, i.e. it tries to assess the impacts...

Economic and technological performances of international firms (1998)

Cincera, Michele

The research performed throughout this dissertation aims at implementing quantitative methods in order to assess economic and technological performances of firms, i.e. it tries to assess the impacts...

Economic and technological performances of international firms (1998)

Cincera, Michele

The research performed throughout this dissertation aims at implementing quantitative methods in order to assess economic and technological performances of firms, i.e. it tries to assess the impacts...

Financing constraints, fixed capital and R&D investment decisions of belgian firms

Michele Cincera

This paper aims at assessing the relationship between the possible existence of financial constraints and the decisions of Belgian private firms as regards their investments in both capital and R&D...

Monopoly Practises and Competitive Behaviour in the French Satellite Pay-TV Market

Cincera, Michele, Noury, Abdul

This Paper uses monthly data from a differentiated market dominated by a duopoly to analyse the nature of interactions between competitor firms. The incumbent, Canal Satellite, and the entrant, TPS,...

International R&D Spillovers: a Survey

Michele Cincera

This paper presents a critical survey on macro and micro levels studies that evaluate the impact of foreign R&D on domestic productivity growth in industrialized countries. Although the available...

Technological Competition, Economic performance and Strategic behaviour of International Firms

Henri Capron, Michele Cincera

This paper analyses the relationship between R&D rivalry, spillovers and productivity at the firm level. A particular attention is put on the way technological spillovers are formalised. The analysis...

Geographic and technological spillovers within the triad: micro evidence from US patents

Luigi Aldieri, Michele Cincera

This paper aims at assessing the magnitude of R&D spillover effects on large international R&D companies’ productivity growth. In particular, we investigate the extent to which R&D spillover...

Capital humain et processus de création d’entreprise : le cas des primo-créateurs wallons

Michele Cincera, Lydia Greunz, Jean-Luc Guyot, Olivier Lohest

Ce working paper tente d’identifier, dans le cadre d’une démarche exploratoire et en articulation avec un cadre théorique original, les liens entre la trajectoire socio-professionnelle et le...

An Integrated Evaluation Scheme of Innovation Systems from an Institutional Perspective

Verena Bikar, Michele Cincera, Henri Capron

This paper aims at proposing an original framework for the mapping of innovation systems. The analytical outline is based on the following paradigm: the innovation process has commonly been accepted...

Brussels Economic Series (Chapters)

Michele Cincera

Chapters in books of Brussels Economic Series

EU Pre-competitive and Near-the-Market S&T Collaborations

Henri Capron, Michele Cincera

EU Science & Technology (S&T) pre-competitive and near-the-market collaborations are the two main instruments of the European technological policy. In order to grasp the dynamics inherent to the...

Assessing the Foreign Control of Production of Technology: The Case of a Small Open Economy

Cincera, Michele, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde

International R&D activities have grown significantly over the last two decades. Both the number of actors involved, as well as the importance of the technological activity carried out abroad, has...

Industry-university S&T transfer: Belgian evidence on CIS data

Henri Capron, Michele Cincera

This paper aims at studying to what extent universities are considered as a main source of innovative ideas by Belgian enterprises. The second European Innovation Survey (CIS2) gives information on...

Brain Drain, Brain Gain and Brain Exchange: The Role of MNEs in a Small Open Economy

Michele Cincera

Based on European and US patent statistics, this paper is an empirical analysis of R&D activities carried out by foreign MNEs in Belgium over the last two decades. The paper investigates the role of...

Special issue on the economics of knowledge spillovers: Introduction and overview

Michele Cincera

This paper summarises the contents of the special issue of the Brussels Economic Review on the economics of knowledge spillovers. The studies of this special issue lead to the following main...

Productivity growth, R&D and the role of international collaborative agreements: Some evidence for Belgian manufacturing companies

Michele Cincera, Lieselot Kempen, Reinhilde Veugelers, Carolina Villegas Sanchez

Using Belgian firm level data on R&D and productivity, this paper provides further evidence on the important role of knowledge in explaining performance at the firm level, by augmenting the classical...

Déterminants des oppositions de brevets:une analyse micro-économique au niveau belge

Michele Cincera

Ce papier propose une étude économétrique sur le phénomène croissant d’oppositions de brevets. Plus spécifiquement, l’étude s’intéresse à l’impact de différents déterminants...

EU Pre-competitive and near-the-market S&T collaborations

Henri Capron, Michele Cincera

EU Science & Technology (S&T) pre-competitive and near-the-market collaborations are the two main instruments of the European technological policy. In order to grasp the dynamics inherent to the...

R&D Activities of Flemish Companies in the Private Sector: An Analysis for the period 1998-2002

Michele CINCERA

The second chapter of this Study analyses the results of the last two surveys (2000 and 2002). These surveys cover a period of rapid expansion of R&D-activities in the Flemish economy. The BERD has...

Impact of Market Entry and Exit on EU Productivity and Growth Performance

Michele Cincera, Olivia Galgau

The European Union and its Member States have been engaged in product market reforms over a long period with notable reforms including the Single Market Program and the Lisbon Agenda launched in...

The link between firms’ R&D by type of activity and source of funding and the decision to patent

Michele Cincera

This paper aims at assessing the impact of R&D activities on the number of patents applied by Belgian R&D manufacturing firms in the mid nineties. The paper extends previous work on the R&D-patent...

Patents, R&D, and Technological Spillovers at the Firm Level: Some Evidence from Econometric Count Models for Panel Data.

Cincera, Michele

The paper analyses the relationship between the main determinants of technological activity and patent applications. To this end, an original panel of 181 international manufacturing firms...

Industry/University S&T Transfers: What Can We Learn From Belgian CIS-2 Data?

Capron, Henri, Cincera, Michele

The second European Innovation Survey (CIS-2) provides information about different modes of interactions between innovative firms and other research institutions, in particular universities. These...

Firms' Productivity Growth and R&D Spillovers: An Analysis of Alternative Technological Proximity Measures

Cincera, Michele

This paper aims at assessing the impact of R&D spillovers on firms’ economic performance as measured by productivity growth. The construction of R&D spillovers is based on Jaffe’s methodology...

Firms’ productivity growth and R&D spillovers: An analysis of alternative technological proximity measures

Michele Cincera

This paper aim at assessing the impact of R&D spillovers on firms’ economic performance as measured by productivity growth. The construction of R&D spillovers is based on Jaffe's...

Geographic and technological R&D spillovers within the triad: micro evidence from US patents

Luigi Aldieri, Michele Cincera

Geographic and technological R&D spillovers, Absorptive capacity, Firms’ productivity growth, O33, O47,

Geographic and Technological R&D Spillovers within the Triad: Micro Evidence from US Patents

Aldieri, Luigi, Cincera, Michele

This paper aims at assessing the magnitude of R&D spillover effects on large international R&D companies’ productivity growth. In particular, we investigate the extent to which R&D spillover...