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Innovation and Social Capital: A Cross-country Investigation

Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

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Human Capital Diversity and Product Innovation: A Micro-Level Analysis

Söllner, Rene - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...

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The Spatial Diffusion of a Knowledge Base-Laser Technology Research in West Germany, 1960-2005

Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …

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What determines the efficiency of regional innovation systems?

Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … the efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less …

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The Causal Effect of Cognitive Abilities on Economic Behavior: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Cognitive Load

Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We identify the causal effect of cognitive abilities on economic behavior in an experimental setting. Using a forecasting task with varying cognitive load, we identify the causal effect of working memory on subjects' forecasting performance, while also accounting for the effect of other...

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Going on the Long Race? - Employment Duration and (De)Regulation of Experimental Stochastic Labor Markets

Berninghaus, Siegfried; Bleich, Sabrina; Güth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

If the future market wage is uncertain, engaging in long-term employment is risky, with the risk depending on how regulated the labor market is. In our experiment long-term employment can result either from offering long-term contracts or from repeatedly and mutually opting for rematching....

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Institutional Influences on strategic entrepreneurial Behaviours

Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a multi-level model that connects the determinants of strategic resource allocation...

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Occupations at risk: The task content and job stability

Nedelkoska, Ljubica - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In the last few decades, Germany, similar to other developed countries, has been witnessing a sharp decline of the jobs that used to constitute the middle-class of the 1970s and the 1980s. This decline has been associated with the level to which jobs are codifiable. This is because, some argue,...

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Technology, outsourcing, and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Exploring the industry dimension

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

It has become common within the literature of skill-biased technological change to look at technologies, as well as their impact on the demand for labor as homogeneous across industries. This paper challenges this view. Using a linked employer-employee panel of Germany differentiated by...

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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...

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