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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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language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …
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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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The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and …
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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
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Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …
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This paper integrates innovation input and output effects of R&D subsidies into a modified Crépon–Duguet–Mairesse (CDM …
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industries. The same pattern shows up in the three Dutch Community Innovation Surveys. …
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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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This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …
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