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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272707
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The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countri
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854540
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The Locus of Innovation in Small and Medium-sized Firms: The Importance of Social Capital and Networking in Innovative Entrepreneurship
Hulsink, W.; Elfring, T.; Stam, W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since ‘innovation does not exist in a vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).’ The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth, and disadvantages leading to inertia and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288607
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Entrepreneurship in China: empirical results from two provinces
Krug, B.; Hendrischke, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2002
China therefore entrepreneurship depends crucially on the ability to establish firms, i.e. to find organisational forms for … entrepreneurship depends on mechanisms for co-ordinating individual or organisational behaviour of firms. These mechanisms were lacking … components of (private) entrepreneurship. One is the search for organisational forms conforming to the situational constraints …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288618
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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization
Acs, Zoltan J.; Wim Naud� - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366435
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Entrepreneurship, Development, and the Spatial Context Retrospect and Prospect
Nijkamp, Peter - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of … interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the … various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973358
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The Lifecycle of Regions
Audretsch, David B; Falck, Oliver; Feldman, Maryann P; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Major economic transitions, even when they are disruptive, do not occur instantaneously but rather occur over time, as regions within a country change at different rates. Accordingly, these dynamics may be reflected in a geographic lifecycle with different regions characterized by different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124213
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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers
Block, J.H.; Thurik, A.R.; Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2009
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the sources of entrepreneurship and its … that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into innovative products while it has no …. Our results show that a high rate of entrepreneurship increases the chances that knowledge turns into innovative products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042243
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The Missing Link: The Knowledge Filter and Entrepreneurship in Endogenous Growth
Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
entrepreneurship as a mechanism that reduces the knowledge filter. A cross-country regression analysis over the period 1981 … entrepreneurship may be an important new approach to promoting economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504210
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The Emergence of a Private Business Sector in China
Krug, B.; Hendrischke, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2001
This paper is part of a broader research project that aims to analyse the emerging private business sector in China by focusing on three topics.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005505048