A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge …. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent … empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the knowledge filter than are incumbent firms …

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically …-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms … that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the …

In this paper the profitability of German car manufacturing firms is related to different indicators for the knowledge … information about the kind of exit of the firms is exploited to construct a latent profitability variable. Knowledge is … knowledge is significantly positively related to firm profitability and that each of the three knowledge forms exerts an …

classified as either support for process innovation or support for product innovation. Although these types of programs do not … difference in differences were combined. The study found that by supporting both process and product innovation … product innovation activities. …

Although knowledge spillovers are at the core of the innovation policy's justification, they have never been properly … other firms and, therefore, to identify firms that indirectly benefit from the program through knowledge diffusion. We use a …

knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity. Therefore, a … approach that links instrumental variable estimation with the Cox regression. The main results are that all three knowledge …

Knowledge is one of the most important determinants in single-industry studies of firm survival over the life cycle …. Different kinds of knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity … positively influence the survival chances of firms. This paper investigates how the kinds of knowledge are able to compensate for …