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Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
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Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...
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effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect …The literature on "Innovation Systems" is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition … the regional effects on coopera- tive innovation activities. We find evidence that the related variety of knowl- edge …
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European housing systems - Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece Œ under the assumption that they had a different path other than …
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In a former study (Carvalho 1995) we modeled the housing market in Portugal in a classic cross section framework and …
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importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management … establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm's total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when …
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This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
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The aim of this paper is to test how geographical and technological proximity relate to a particular industry's innovative output. Two mechanisms are therefore tested, i.e. agglomeration economies and the regional exploitation of technological proximity. A new dataset is applied, which includes...
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 ("Mannheim Innovation Panel"), we pair firms … applying knowledge management with twin firms with similar characteristics not applying knowledge management. Our focus is on …
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we do not find those effects for the other industries due to their idiosyncratic innovation and patenting behaviour. …
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