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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
drive innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032006
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Returns to Education and Risky Financial Investment
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl; Garino, Gaia - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2006
The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between wages, human capital and investment in financial assets with risky returns at the individual level. To explore this relationship from an international perspective, we analyse individual level data from the British Household Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463785
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Social Interaction and Intergenerational Skill Transfer
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2006
We explore the relationship between educational attainment and social interaction using individual level data from the British National Child Development Study. To be specific, we analyze whether an intergenerational aspect to this relationship exists by examining the relationship between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005593077
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The Over-Education of UK Immigrants and Minority Ethnic Groups: Evidence from the Labour Force Survey.
Lindley, Joanne Kathryn - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005593089
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Bullying, Education and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from the National Child Development Study.
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2005
We explore the effect of bullying at school on the educational attainment of a sample of individuals drawn from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). Our empirical findings suggest that school bullying has an adverse effect on human capital accumulation both at and beyond school....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005628511
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Sectoral R&D intensity and Exchange Rate Volatility: A Panel Study on Economies of the OECD
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth; Schweickert, Rainer; Chavali, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964133
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Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
issues will be cross classified with J23; those focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship will be cross classified with O31 … the questions this review covers the intersection of entrepreneurship with labor markets, innovation and capital markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970272
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Regional Dynamics of Innovation Investigating the Co-Evolution of Patents, R&D, and Employment
Bürger, Matthias; Brökel, Tom; Coad, Alex - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
we do not find those effects for the other industries due to their idiosyncratic innovation and patenting behaviour. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984634
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Industry Specialization, Diversity and the Efficiency of Regional Innovation Systems
Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may … innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new ideas may be born by the exchange of heterogeneous and complementary … knowledge between actors, which belong to different industries (Jacobs' externalities). We test the impact of both MAR as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001424
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New Rationales for Innovation Policy? A Comparison of the Systems of Innovation Policy Approach and the Neoclassical Perspective
Schröter, Alexandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
attention from researchers and politicians. The systems of innovation policy (SIP) approach, which is based on the SI concept …, is considered an alternative to neoclassical theory. Its goal is to provide new rationales and criteria for innovation … policy, as well as concrete implications and guidelines for policymakers, that are more appropriate for innovation processes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012076