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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed …

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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789146

Innovativity: A comparison across seven European countries

Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

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Foreign Direct Investment, Firm-Level Capabilities and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Kenyan Manufacturing Industry

Gachino, Geoffrey - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

This paper uses firm-level survey data of Kenyan manufacturing industry to examine the significance of FDI and firm-level capabilities in human capital development. It undertakes a detailed descriptive comparison of human capital and other firm-level capabilities generated by both foreign and...

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). Providing evidence from a larger...

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Brusoni, Stefano; Crespi, Gustavo; Francoz, Dominique; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...

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FDI, R&D and Innovation Output in the Chinese Automobile Industry

Chen, Fang; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

interrelationships between, innovation input and innovation output, and in particular whether FDI had any influence on these two aspects … of innovation. A generalized tobit model will be estimated for both R&D and the share of innovative sales for 2002 …

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Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control

Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...

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