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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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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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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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Management control and innovative activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative activities. There are opposing effects concerning R&D intensity in the manager-controlled firm. Our study on the determinants of R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning...

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Die Auswirkung der Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik auf die Innovationsaktivitäten ostdeutscher Unternehmen

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2001 - Diese Version: Oktober 2001

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding-out effects between public and private means occur. A non … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …

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