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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start-up decision and can explain the gender gap in...

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Look who's talking : on the heterogeneous returns to foreign language use at work among natives and migrants in Europe

Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - 2017

language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …

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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2014

This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...

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University spinoffs and the “performance premium”

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - 2013

The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and …

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Search patterns and absorptive capacity : a comparison of low- and high-technology firms from thirteen European countries

Grimpe, Christoph (contributor); Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2007

Searching for externally available knowledge has been characterised as a vital part of the innovation process. Previous … and that these moderate the relationship between innovation inputs and outputs. Based on a sample of 4,500 firms from 13 … European countries we find that search patterns in low-technology industries focus on market knowledge while they are built …

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Institutional capacity to dynamically innovate : an application to the Portuguese case

Galindo, Purificacíon Vicente; Noronha, Teresa de; … - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 78 (2011) 1, pp. 3-12

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Incorporating innovation subsidies in the CDM framework : empirical evidence from Belgium

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Delanote, Julie - 2016 - This version: May 2016

This paper integrates innovation input and output effects of R&D subsidies into a modified Crépon–Duguet–Mairesse (CDM …

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The organizational design of high-tech startups and product innovation

Grimpe, Christoph; Murmann, Martin; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2017

We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups’ innovation performance. Additional … it improves the success rates from recombining existing knowledge as well as managing R&D personnel. In addition, we …

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Public procurement as policy instrument for innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hünermund, Paul; Moshgbar, Nima - 2018

The use of public procurement to promote private innovation activities has attracted increasing attention recently … to investigate whether this reform stimulated innovation in the business sector. Across a wide set of specifications …

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Haftungsregeln und Innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

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