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Precocious inventors : early patenting success and lifetime inventive performance

Michlbauer, Theresa; Zwick, Thomas - 2021

This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked with survey data that provide information on an extensive...

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Global engagement and the innovation activities of firms

Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2005

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Externalities in knowledge production : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Hinnosaar, Marit; Hinnosaar, Toomas; Kummer, Michael E.; … - 2019

Do contributions to online content platforms induce a feedback loop of ever more user-generated content or will they discourage future contributions? To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment which added content to some pages in Wikipedia while leaving similar pages unchanged. We find...

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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services: an empirical assesssment of alternative approaches

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999

knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out …In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools … that measures of the uncentered correlation of firm characteristics seem to fit actual knowledge spillovers best. Direct …

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Entry regulation and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence from a German natural experiment

Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2010

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

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Productivity spillovers among knowledge workers in agglomerations : evidence from GitHub

El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Fackler, Thomas - 2023

cluster. Yet, most studies on the productivity effects of agglomerations measure innovation with patent data, thus capturing … that physical proximity to a large number of other knowledge workers in the same field leads to spillovers, increasing …

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