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An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
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This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the interconnectedness of social contacts, we compare rural and agglomerated areas. A smaller community size in rural areas generates greater network closure. Agents' neighborhoods are more likely...
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This paper studies the probability of receiving employer-paid training and other training independent of who finances it for permanent and temporary workers in Chile. The authors use data from the Social Protection Survey, EPS, allowing them to construct a panel of workers with information from...
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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interorganizational network strength, openness, university collaboration, and intrapreneurship on radical innovation across adolescent and …
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incumbents are not willing or able to exploit. Accordingly, incumbent innovation determines exploitable knowledge externalities … spawned from incumbents are not necessarily a threat; they can complement incumbents' production by commercializing knowledge … for spinoffs while, at the same time, spinoffs are expected to influence incumbent innovation. To overcome this problem of …
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-64 years old. A more detailed analysis of the working-age distribution suggests that startups in knowledge-based (high …
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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 …
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