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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2014

high growth are phenomena of the modern period. In order to explain these phenomena we propose an innovation-driven growth …

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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2015

We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …

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Sources of Knowledge Used by Entrepreneurial Firms in the European High-Tech Sector

Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017

/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008

Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...

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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era

Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2010

Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into an otherwise standard R&D-based growth model....

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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era

Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2011

Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate R&D-based growth into a unified growth setup with micro-founded fertility and schooling...

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The past and future of knowledge-based growth

Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2012

Conventional R&D-based growth theory argues that productivity growth is driven by population growth but the data suggest that the erstwhile positive correlation between population and productivity turned negative during the 20th century. In order to resolve this problem we integrate R&D-based...

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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era

Strulik, Holger; Prettnerz, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2010

Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate microfounded fertility and schooling into an otherwise standard R&D-based growth model. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289001

Firm size and innovation in the service sector

Audretsch, David B.; Hafenstein, Marian; Kritikos, … - 2018

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge …A rich literature links knowledge inputs with innovative outputs. However, most of what is known is restricted to … productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …

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Microfirms and innovation in the service sector

Audretsch, David B.; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Schiersch, … - In: Small Business Economics 55 (2020) 4, pp. 997-1018

firms having a higher probability of initiating innovation activities and of successfully turning knowledge into innovation … activities—R&D, innovative output, and productivity—hold for knowledge-intensive services. With especially high start-up rates … and the majority of employees in microfirms, knowledge-intensive services (KIS) have a starkly different profile from …

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