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Firm Knowledge, Neighborhood Diversity and Innovation
Wixe, Sofia - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014
This paper tests the importance of firm level knowledge and neighborhood diversity, as a source for localized knowledge … points to the importance of absorptive capacity. However, firm characteristics, such as the knowledge of the own employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818712
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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes
Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987369
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Does Labour Mobility Foster Innovation? Evidence from Sweden
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Ding, Ding; Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015
innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is particularly strong for knowledge workers that have … application data, we provide new evidence that knowledge workers’ mobility has a positive and strongly significant impact on firm … previously worked in a patenting firm (the learning-by-hiring effect), but firms losing a knowledge worker are also shown to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265689
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Education and Invention
Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Modern growth theory puts invention on the center stage. Inventions are created by individuals, raising the question: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on invention, using data on U.S. patents’ Finnish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009275968
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R&D Strategies and Entrepreneurial Spawning
Andersson, Martin; Baltzopoulos, Apostolos; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
-ups from knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms with persistent R&D investments have a significantly increased … start in the same firm, indicating the importance of inherited related knowledge. The findings suggest that R&D intensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552418
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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial: Distinctions by Entry Visa
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468510
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey
Brusoni, Stefano; Crespi, Gustavo; Francoz, Dominique; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124480
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818713
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791837
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399722